Windows 10: Trying to create a Windows 10 Recovery drive but it just stays stuck at "please wait" forever.

I am having problems creating a recovery drive in Windows 10. I gets stuck at "please wait" for hours, when I start the process. I saw this question all over the place and found the solution. The trick is to NOT put the USB drive in before initiating the process. Let it start and after a few minutes of please wait, it will ask you to put in the USB thumb drive and then will continue to successfully create the recovery drive.

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Create Windows recovery DVD 'please wait'

Hello,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft community. I regret the inconvenience caused to you. Let me help you.

Please share these details.

• 
  How are you trying to create recovery disc?
  
• 
  Do you get any error message?
  

In order to create a recovery disk, follow the steps below;

1. Type “Recovery” in search box and press Enter.

2. Select the option to create a recovery disc and follow the prompts to create a recovery disc.

I suggest you to refer the article below and check if it helps

For more information refer the below article.

Create a recovery drive

Create a recovery drive

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help

 

Help! Failure trying to create a recovery drive in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

I understand the inconvenience caused to you while creating the recovery drive on Widows 10 with error: "We can't create the recovery drive. A problem occurred while creating the recovery drive.", we will help you with this issue.

This issue might have occurred because of the recovery partition is not created during Windows setup, and will be unavailable for Windows to access and use for the purposes of copying recovery files to a CD or USB, resulting in the error above.

To fix the problem explained above, it is necessary to copy the appropriate files from the Windows 10 DVD to your PC, so that Windows can access and use them to create the recovery drive. Then, the recovery agent is configured with the new path to the setup
files and the creation can proceed.

Refer: How
to download official Windows 10 ISO files

Follow the below steps:

• Copy the contents of the Windows DVD to a folder on your C:\ drive.
• Launch an elevated command prompt window by typing in “cmd” in the search menu, and then pressing + + .
• Type in the following to re-configure Windows to point to the correct setup files location:
  

• reagentc /disable
• reagentc /setosimage /path C:\Win10\
• reagentc /enable

4. Verify the commands worked by typing in the following:

• reagentc /info

Later, I suggest you to try creating the recovery drive as suggested in the Microsoft article and check if it helps.

Creating a recovery drive

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue for further assistance.

 

Recovery Drive process takes forever

Dear All

When I try to create a recovery drive (USB), in the first step when I click Next it goes to another window that says please wait and a green bar goes on and on, and it stays like that forever. (look at the image uploaded)



I'm using Dell XPS 13, and Windows 10

is there any problem? what should I do

Thanks