An answer that doesn't answer my question. Bye.

I already said I'd look into it., but I want to know how to do what I'm trying to do right now.

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I reformatted in as FAT32 and it tells me it must be NTFS (which is what...

I still want to to the USB system image for now, though I will investigate 3rd party solutions.

What was I doing wrong?

That is exactly what I thought and I was trying to use a USB.

https://i.imgur.com/YHDikcg.jpg

Also see this:

https://i.imgur.com/AqUK443.jpg

The external disk is obviously the best...

I thought I could use a USB drive?

Or is there something else I'm doing wrong?

Whoops. Found it. All is good. Thanks.

Can't find this on Win 10.

Help! I have linked my PC to my Microsoft account. How do I undo it?

Thank you.

Has gone away. Probably a Chromium issue fixed by update.

At any rate, thank you *very* much for helping get my system independent of the old drive.
That was the *real* problem.

And of course helping me understand what was going on.

Going forward, I...

Thanks to all who answered.

I certainly don't need the space that is true.

But I'm going over every possible option so as to understand how things work.
See unchecked box near bottom.

https://i.imgur.com/NDyADlF.jpg

Is there any significant performance hit from doing it on an SSD drive?
Thanks.

That was the Win 7 drive that crashed, forcing me to Win 10, so I'm not shocked if I lose it.
It will be a shame to lose that drive, but I'm only using it for backups.
But it's a lot of convenient...

Will do. I'll report back later.

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After running Sea Tools tests and recovering some bad sectors using CHKDSK, I back up the files on that disk to a USB drive.

Then I use...

I understand the general principles, but I'm playing a lot of catch up.
Win 10 was thrust upon me by circumstances.

I'm a retired systems programmer, but not an expert on my particular home...

Exactly. Thank you.

Look again at my previous post, edited to show before and after.

Is that good now? Can I rename or reallocate SYSTEM?

https://i.imgur.com/NcpYU5r.jpg

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Update: Shut down...

Just wanting to know for just in case.

Worst case scenario is use it to reinstall win 10 clean.

Question: Can it be used for that on a computer other than the one used to create it?

Thank...

Created recovery drive after last post, booted from it (but didn't do anything with it) first thing this morning.

Boot up afterward was slow, but it turned out there was an update pending,...

OK followed up with another /info


Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration...

Thanks.

Windows RE status: Disabled

OK then, what next?

Link? More details?

I could before. Problem possibly an effect of this fix:
Win 10 losing contact with hard drive

The previously created recovery drives do not work (I tested them before posting this).
...

Adding screenshots in case it's helpful.

Before
https://i.imgur.com/tmh2hzy.jpg

After
https://i.imgur.com/utKYcCc.jpg