Imagine a situation when you wake up one fine morning and realize that your computer won’t start. It could be a system error or corrupted files. Just one of those days when your computer needs a little pampering from you. If you have an OEM-made recovery drive on your PC, it’s fine. But I would be concerned if there is no recovery media available in case you need to reinstall Windows.
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Today, let me show you how to create recovery media for Windows 10 to get out of such situations without breaking a sweat.
Why create a recovery partition?
A recovery partition can take up several GB of your hard drive, or you may have to reserve a 16 GB USB drive for that partition. But it can save you a lot of trouble when your computer won’t boot on a random day. Imagine the pain when you have to run to your friends to create a bootable image of Windows 10 just to fix your computer.
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Also, if you have recovery media, you are not required to completely wipe your system. Windows may also attempt to repair an existing installation. In the worst case, if you have to wipe the system, the fresh install will pre-install all your drivers and will save you a lot of time and effort.
Let’s see how we can create dedicated recovery partition on hard drive and removable USB Drive. By default, the option to create recovery removable media is available in Windows 10. But we will be using a third-party application called AOMEI OneKey Recovery to create a dedicated recovery partition.
Create a USB recovery drive
Open the Start Menu and search for Recovery drive and run the application. It will open the Control Panel where you will see the option to Create a recovery drive. Click it. You may be asked for admin rights when clicking the option.
Once the restore starts, make sure you have the option checked Back up system files to a recovery drive. This will ensure that you can even reinstall the entire operating system from the recovery drive if it fails to repair or your hard disk fails.
Finally, the wizard will ask you to select the removable drive. Please use a minimum 8 GB USB drive for the task and make sure there are no important files on it as it will be formatted before processing.
The whole process may take some time. Once done, don’t forget to label the USB drive. You have your Windows 10 recovery drive ready.
Create a dedicated recovery partition on the hard drive
AOMEI OneKey Recovery is a free application and creating a recovery partition is just a few clicks. There is no hidden agenda here. The application is very easy to use and it even creates a partition for the user if he is not sure how to create it using Windows Management.
After you launch the application, click on the OneKey System Recovery option. The application will show you the current partition structure and the resulting partitions after creating the recovery partition. Make sure that you always plug your laptop into a power outlet as this process can take up to 2 hours to complete depending on the speed of the processor.
Note: There is an option to create a USB recovery partition in case you don’t have enough hard drive space.
Once the process is complete, the application will ask you how you want to set up the boot menu to boot from recovery.
Conclusion
So that’s how you can create a USB drive dedicated to recovery media for Windows 10. It will surely come in handy on one of those days when your computer crashes. If you run into any issues while creating this media, feel free to leave a comment and we’ll be sure to follow up.
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