it's actually the recovery with system files that appears to be larger than the windows installation media tool.

so following the link you provided in an earlier reply for creating an...

Thanks! This thread has been quite helpful.

Yea I figured copy and paste won't work since the recovery drive is a boot drive. Perhaps creating a USB image of it, then putting that onto my new USB...

hi all,

i'm having the same issue.

I was actually able to create a recovery drive with system files first time around and selected the option to remove recovery partition to free up disk...