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Here's what I wound up with:

Disk layout: This is a HP Pavilion and I zeroed out the HP drives/partitions and included bloatware and clean installed Win 7 Pro in Jan 2013,...

So far so good..I'm using a SanDisk 32GB USB stick it recommended a 32GB size and of course with FAT you wind up with about 29.7 GB usable. About halfway done now and it appears to be self...

It's 19.6 GB...

It seems to be working now. The only difference was to go to control panel>File Explorer Options and uncheck "hide protected operating system files". I already had "Show Hidden Files, Folders or...

Thanks, but the process David listed worked great; it's just I can no longer create the recovery disk with the checkbox (system files) checked, which defeats the whole purpose of this thread.

Yes, only one file is listed:


usmt.ppkg

Process worked great, but I ran into the dreaded "We can't create the recovery drive: A problem occurred while recreating the recovery drive" error.

Formatting was successful, but the last second...

Thanks for the response! That is disappointing news however.

Hi am new to the forums. Is there any way to create a custom refresh with Win 10 as recimg used to do with Windows 8? I can't access the tutorial in the red box above and I am not sure if that even...