Windows 10: USB Recovery Drive in Windows 10?

Hi what size is best for a USB flash drive memory stick in order to create a recovery drive for the newly installed Win 10 pls?
Is 64GB too large?

Appreciate any help

Thx

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Windows usb recovery drive vs Hp recovery usb drive

Does it mean that Windows recovery USB drive can perform everything that a HP recovery drive could?

If it is yes, I believe there is no point creating an hp USB recovery drive too

 

Backup vs Recovery Drive

We had a USB backup drive on Windows 10 before the recent upgrade. With the new up grade we now have a Recovery Drive and a USB Backup Drive. Does the Recovery Drive replace the USB Backup Drive?

 

Hi there

IMO the best size is one that is large enough to accomodate bootable version of Macrium PLUS your latest Windows recovery image (you want the "C" OS partition and the system reserved partition in the backup image).

If you have the Macrium ISO you can make a bootable USB with RUFUS. Simply create 2 partitions on the USB stick, one bootable for Macrium and the other for your Image data.

In general a 64GB stick should be more than large enough.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Hi quick reply appreciated, never used or heard of RUFUS.

Thx

 

Multiple partitions on the same USB can be problematic on some computers. There is no need for the second partition. I would just make the Macrium Reflect Rescue drive and save the image file to a folder on it and just leave it as one big partition.

 

I have done it both ways. I've used two separate partitions, and I have used one big partition. The one big partition has given me less problems in the past.

 

If you are talking about the USB Recovery Media, 16GB is the best for the job.

 

OK Thx so 64Gb would be way too big

 

Not if he is also going to store the backup image on the same drive.

 

I think the OP is just asking about that recovery media not the backup image storage.

 

True. We got off on post #2 about making a Macrium Reflect rescue disc and saving an image to it.

 

I would not recommend saving an image on a USB flashdrive and recover from it. It will be molasses.

 

Hi yes I was.......cheers guys appreciated

 

Depends - I have a san cruzer extreme 32GB which reads at 245 MB/s and writes at 100 MB/s and that is faster than my spinny hdds! I definitely get easily 90+% of those quoted speeds

The 64 GB version writes at 190 MB/s and is nearly as fast as modest SSD.

For relatively small image backups, they can be handy (and then copy/transfer to an hdd at your leisure).