Windows 10: Rescue USB drive

I want to make Thumb drive for an emergency startup in case of a crash. I can't remember how. I'm running Windows 10.

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help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.

 

HELP!!! External Drive issues!!

you're in luck, the guy with way too much external storage is here to the rescue!


step 1: try with a different USB cable

step 2: take the drive out of the enclosure and connect it internally to your PC

quite likely the cable or enclosure has died. if you're re-initialising the disk you might actually be erasing it... so dont do that.

 

Want to create a bootable rescue usb flash drive

I tried kaspersky boot drive rescue disk file: kav_rescue_10.iso that I dd to the usb flash drive and it boots but it crashes when scanning. Is there a way to create these disks I think I got the idea from here long ago too. I need something I can use on any pc that can boot from the usb drive to act as a saviour drive thing. Also has to be able to update its database. my drive has 16gb and a write off switch. paid 7$ for it on ebay 2 years ago. the ready only switch works perfectly in my opinion but can't say for sure it can stand all forms of attacks against writing other than switching the switch by hand.