{"id":6176,"date":"2016-02-26T02:15:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2016-02-26T02:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:18:36","slug":"windows-10-create-and-use-a-usb-recovery-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/windows-10-create-and-use-a-usb-recovery-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: Create and Use A USB Recovery Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Recovery Drive is a bootable USB drive that can be used to repair or recover your computer, in the event it won’t start normally. Like its predecessor, Windows 10 also lets users create a bootable USB recovery drive easily. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to create and use a Windows 10 USB Recovery Drive.<\/p>\n

If you are creating a basic Recovery Drive, you can use a 1GB USB flash drive. However, if you choose to include the system files, which allows you to use the Recovery Drive to reinstall Windows, you’ll want at least a 16GB USB flash drive. Note that a Recovery Drive prepared on a 32-bit version of Windows 10 can’t be used on 64-bit Windows 10 and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Part 1: Create A Windows 10 USB Recovery Drive?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + X to open the WinX menu. Click Control Panel<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Select the View by<\/strong> option at the top right of the Control Panel. Set it to Large icons. Next click Recovery<\/strong>.\n

    \"control-panel\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. Select “Create a recovery drive<\/strong>“.\n

    \"recovery\"<\/p>\n

    Click Yes<\/strong> when you see the User Account Control prompt.<\/li>\n

  4. The Recovery Drive Creation Wizard should open. Make sure the “Back up system files to the recovery drive<\/strong>” option is checked if you want to use the Recovery Drive for reinstalling Windows. Click Next<\/strong>.\n

    \"create-recovery-drive\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. Select the connected USB drive before clicking Next<\/strong>. Once again, we want to remind you that the selected drive will be completely erased.\n

    \"select-usb-flash-drive\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. When you see the confirmation screen, click Create<\/strong> button and it will format the drive and begin copying files to the drive.\n

    \"erase-usb-drive\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. If you’re creating a basic Recovery Drive, the process will take just a few minutes. If you create a dedicated Recovery Drive including the system files, it could take as long as an hour.\n

    \"creating-the-recovery-drive\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  8. When the process is complete, click Finish<\/strong> to close the Recovery Drive wizard.\n

    \"recovery-drive-ready\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Part 2: Use A Windows 10 USB Recovery Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If your computer fails to boot, stuck on automatic repair loop<\/a>, unable to restore or reset your PC to factory defaults due to forgotten password, you will need your Recovery Drive to fix it. <\/p>\n

    Insert your previously-created USB Recovery Drive into your computer and restart. Your computer should boot from the Recovery Drive automatically. (If it doesn\u2019t, you may need to change its boot order.)<\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

    Once booted to the Recovery Drive, you can access to the Advanced Startup Tools. From here, you can do several things to help troubleshoot your computer, such as perform a factory reset, reset \/ refresh Windows, restore from a system image, launch a command line tool to repair your losing system files or fix the boot issues, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A Recovery Drive is a bootable USB drive that can be used to repair or recover your computer, in the event it won’t start normally. Like its predecessor, Windows 10 also lets users create a bootable USB recovery drive easily. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to create and use a Windows 10 USB […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[2544,2546,2545],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-create-windows-10-recovery-drive","tag-create-windows-usb-recovery-drive","tag-windows-10-recovery-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6188,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}