Cannot find way to uninstall Windows version and am on Day 9 of the 10

Should my USB drive be formatted NTFS before creating the recovery drive? I see conflicting info on this - some posts say that creating the recovery drive will format the USB, and other say that it has to be reformatted to NTFS from FAT32 before creating the recovery drive.

Also, is there a way to verify that the recovery drive will actually work? I'm finding posts that say it appeared that it was created successfully using the Windows tools, but when they tried to use it, it did not work.

Thanks again,
Deb

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I searched C: and did not find windows.old

Do I have to create a Windows recovery disk from my computer before I uninstall those two updates? I can try that again.

Deb

It appears windows.old is gone from C:

I downloaded and ran HDTune - no errors were found on Health or Error Scan. Running chkdsk c: /scan from an Admin powerShell prompt shows 'Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.'

What risks are there in uninstalling those two Windows updates? After a system restore broke all of my apps, I am now very nervous about messing with restore/uninstall/resetting Windows. I have full and recent backups of all of my files and documents.

I don't have an unused external hard drive to use for the Macrium Reflect disk image - I ordered one but it won't be here for a week.

Thanks,
Deb

Thanks - I ordered two 2 TB portable hard drives for this purpose - one for me, one for my husband. Time to practice ALL of the safety measures, not just backing up our data.

One final question - I want to create a bootable Windows recovery USB drive just in case. I have new 32 GB that is formatted FAT32. Should I reformat it first to NTFS?

Thanks again. Soooo appreciated that you provided such awesome support.

Deb

Thanks! Much appreciated.