Recovery USB

RichA · 19 Jan 2016

Error Message: A problem occurred while creating the recovery drive?
My recovery Partition: 12.28 GB
Recovery Utilities: 700MB
USB Drive: 16 GB
Windows 10

cereberus · 19 Jan 2016

RichA said:

Error Message: A problem occurred while creating the recovery drive?
My recovery Partition: 12.28 GB
Recovery Utilities: 700MB
USB Drive: 16 GB
Windows 10

If you have a 12.28 GB recovery partition, that is from a previous Verdi n of windows.

Windows 10 recovery partitions are only around 0.5GB containing software to rebuild os from Windows 10 itself.

To make a recovery usb, you need to do following

control panel, recovery, create a recovery drive, and chrck box to back up system files to the recovery drive.

It should easily fit on an 8GB drive (16 GB is fine).

However some people have reported issue with 10240 with it not working.

Fortunately, with windows 10, there is not much difference between a clean install usb drive (easy to create) and a recovery usb drive, so a recovery drive is less crtical than with windows 7 for example.

cereberus · 19 Jan 2016

caperjack said:

sounds like you need to be using a 32gig ,different make&model computers require 32 gig

This is incorrect.

RichA · 19 Jan 2016

I tried without checking system files and got the utilities on the usb drive.
I've tried to get the system files loaded on the usb drive three times and each time
the same message appears. Other people are having the same problem.
Looks like I need to wait till Windows 10 gets the bug fixed.

whs · 19 Jan 2016

If you hit a brick wall here, I suggest to put an image on the stick.

RichA · 19 Jan 2016

whs said:

If you hit a brick wall here, I suggest to put an image on the stick.

Good idea, need to get a larger USB.

Thanks to everybody for your Help

caperjack · 19 Jan 2016

cereberus said:

This is incorrect.

yeah,it could be ,but ,I thought they meant there were trying to make the factory recovery usb , there for it wouldn't be ,,sorry for my misunderstanding .