Windows 10: Windows 10 recovery drive size

Hi, I tried to create a recovery drive through the Windows recovery tool. I used a 16 GB flash drive. After almost 8 hours of recovery process, I got a message that the recovery process has failed and when I checked the flash drive, it was full. So I want to know whether the 16 GB flash drive is really sufficient for creating a recovery drive or there seems to be some problem.

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Windows 10 recovery USB - which size???

Not even that. What creating a recovery drive does (if you select 'include system files') is to construct the files required to clean install Windows. If this is made on an OEM install these file will include the OEM custom apps and drivers - effectively a 'factory reset' drive. It is extracting an install image from your existing system files that takes the time.

The steps in making a recovery drive are shown in this tutorial...

Create Recovery Drive in Windows 10 | Tutorials

• first you choose whether or not to include system files (step 5 in tutorial)
• next the recovery drive files are constructed (this can take a long time if you include system files)
• only after that is complete will you be asked which usb to use (step 6 in tutorial). At this point you will be told how large a usb you need.

Without system files 512 Mb is sufficient. Including system files it will be just over 4GB.

At which step did you get the error? If you were not asked which usb to use then it was the construction of the system files that failed, nothing to do with what usb you had.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Create Recovery Drive in Windows 10  


I created a USB recovery flash drive.

In File Explorer, the list of files does not correspond to the screenshot for step 5, here:
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade Installation Upgrade Tutorials

For example, setup.exe is missing.

Please advise.

Thanks.
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