Windows 10: Windows 10 Recovery disk -- how often?

In Windows 10, once you've made a recovery disk how often (if at all) should you update it?

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How to create Recovery disk for windows 10

Hii Panel;

Last week i upgrade window7 to window 10 , so now what i want to know is that how to create a complete recovery disk (using Pen-drive or hard disk) for window 10. So that in future if any problem occur i can make format to currently install window10 and
reinstall windows10 from that recovery disk .

Please tell me step by step process for creating recovery disk and also tell me how to again reinstall window 10 form that recovery disk ?

 

How to know if the recovery disk is of Windows 8.1/10?

Original Title: created a recovery disk , how to know it is of windows 8.1 or windows 10

hi,

i created recovery disk but not sure it is windows 8.1 or 10 how to find it?

i check existing post but not clear with the replies.

please help.

 

Just keep it as it is. Its purpose is to help bring Windows back to a stable state similar to a clean install. If you keep adding stuff to it, it adds variables which could cause issues.

 

If you are using the "Create a Recovery Drive" feature in Windows 10 Control Panel

To keep the recovery drive up to date - recreate the recovery drive after large updates..

Windows 10 Recovery drives are created to include any windows updates that are present on the Host

 

This is a good plan - minor additional point, when you create a recovery drive it excludes any updates in done in the last 30 days, so if you have to use it because of a recent update problem, you do not get caught in a catch 22 situation i.e. you cannot recover because the recovery drive contains the update causing you to fail.

 

Thanks,all, for the input. (That last point about the 30 days is particularly enlightening.) At this point I'm surmising that the best course of action is (providing there has been no major update in the previous 30 days) to update it once ever four months or so.

Now another question. Just having created the disk. I got what many sites say to watch out for: the message the the disk could not be created. The uniform advice is, either to use a larger usb drive (mine is 8GB) or to uncheck the "backup" box. At that a strange thing happens. The drive that, with the backup, took nearly ten minutes to make and took up all of the 8GB with the backup, took only seconds to make and is less than 400MB. This would suggest that the backup takes 7.6GB, which is absurd.

Question: Is (a bit less than) 400MB size normal for a recorvery disk?

 

That partition only contains software to recreate the recovery partition from the compressed winsnxs folders in windows 10, unlike the older versions which had a separate compressed copy of the OS.

 

Um... so you're saying I haven't actually created a Recovery disk?

 

Not as such.

To create one in case hard disk fails etc

control panel, recovery, create recovery drive, and select to copy system files.

 

Will do. Thanks.

You know, I've been at computers for twenty years now. At this stage I've even built seven or eight--and Microsoft still keeps on pulling the rug out from underneath me (and, of course, so many others like me). Of course, I understand the frenetic march of technology, but far too much of the changes seem to be change purely for Change's sake. Gimmickry. Whatever happened to those sound words, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

So much for my little rant, but I'm not getting any younger (and Apple is, by degrees, looking that much more attractive).

 

without Checking Copy System Files - you are creating a WinRE Boot Disk (400MB + -)
Checking Copy System Files - You are creating Bare Metal Reset Recovery Media (4GB ++)

On an OEM PC a 8GB or more Recovery is normal

 

Still new kid on the block compared with me .

This change was driven by advent of portable devices and need to reduce overall footprint of windows 10. Actually, provided you back up drivers, recovery drives are not really needed anymore, but are convenient.

 

"...control panel, recovery, create recovery drive, and select to copy system files."

After control panel, recovery, create recovery drive, the next window offers only "Create a recovery drive" (adding the option to "back up" system files. There is no option to "Copy System files"--but I'm guessing that you mean those are the same thing. Yes?

Since my 8GB Flash drive isn't big enough for that I guess I'll have to hunt up a bigger one.

 

If you want to have a backup which will bring your system back to its current state, you need to make a System Image. The system can be restored to a bare metal drive and be exactly the same as when the image was made. This option does need bootable media such as repair/recovery or install media.

System images can be created using the Windows utility or some third party utility.

A recovery drive for an OEM system will copy over the Factory Image on the hard drive and recover that system back to bare metal. As far as I know, that image never changes and will always set that system back to the condition it was after arriving from the seller. There have been problems trying to use a factory image from an earlier OS to recover on a Windows 10 install, if you are using the original hard drive.

Some OEMs have their own version of Recovery Media.