Create Recovery Drive in Windows 10  

Nope. No luck. even with the usb drive in place I still get no further than the logo screen with the dots going in circles. I can't even get back to the blue choose option screen. Guess I'll have to pay LG the $500 they want to fix my 2 year old computer. Thanks for the help.

hi I wish I knew what I was trying to do. Just get it to work I guess. Now I got the blue screen by hitting the f10 key.And I can get to the reset this PC screen. but it won't take the password for the account. Even tho I know the password is good because I just used it for ten forums password reset. So I'm stuck on that reset this PC screen.

ok.. Thanks Again.

I have a machine that came with Win 10 Home on it. I immediately created a USB recovery drive. I then created a system image. This was to represent my doomsday start over point. It was fortunate that I did that since I've had to roll back my machine to day 1 shortly after Acronis True Image failed.

Last night I upgraded Win 10 Home --> Win 10 Pro. And as a side note, I was so disappointed to learn that the minute you buy it through the Microsoft Store, you have to install it. There's no download, no "do it later", you have to do it now.

Anyway, I'm trying to prepare for a doomsday scenario under PRO. Do I still need to create a new recovery drive? If so, should I use the original USB stick recovery drive I created in HOME and just overwrite it? Is the original recovery drive of any use to me should I need to rebuild from day one, or is that no longer an option once I've upgraded? OR... will the old recovery usb drive still do everything I would need, and if necessary, I just restore the new Win 10 PRO image(s)?

I guess another way of asking is: once upgrading to Pro, are my original Windows Home drive image and recovery drive of any use?

Also, what's going to happen when I choose "reset this PC"? Will it reset to Home or Pro?

Brink said:

Hello @Silky,

Yes, you can use your Windows 10 installation USB instead. It also contains WinRE.

I'm getting lost in terminology. I don't know that I HAVE a Win 10 Installation USB. The machine didn't come with one certainly as it's an Acer with Windows 10 Home pre-installed. Now, I created a recovery drive on a USB and then made a system image...

The Recovery Drive only contains WinRE unless you check the Back up system files to the recovery drive box to be able to reset Windows 10.

How can I verify whether or not I included system files on the original USB Recovery drive?

If you reset Windows 10, it will be the same edition you currently have installed.

Is that true regardless of which method I use to reset? Say for example I choose reset from within windows system settings. If I understand you right, that would reset me to win PRO. Would that be a fresh install of Pro? On the other hand, if I put in my original usb recovery drive and boot to that, if I reset, would it reset to Pro, even though it was created with Home?

I would just create a new Windows 10 installation USB using the latest version to use.

So again, would I overwrite the original usb recovery drive or should I get a new usb stick and use that? Will the old one do me any good?

Or am I making this too complicated because I'm not tracking on the subtleties of installation USB v Recovery USB?