A Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive is must for anyone, who keeps on messing with their Windows 8 PC or laptop. Even if you are not a tech savvy than also creating a Windows 8 USB recovery drive will keep you on a safe side.
Why you need a Windows 8 recovery drive? If you have a recovery drive on yourUSB drive then you can use this drive to reset your Windows 8 machine to earlier time. You can also use this for advanced repair and troubleshooting tools for Windows 8 like Command Prompt, System Restore and Automatic Repair.
Also Read Tutorial on how to create Windows 8 Bootable USB drive
Create Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive
Follow these simple steps to create Windows 8 USB recovery drive
Before you start to make recovery drive, you should check if there is already Recovery partition present on your computer. Recovery partition is must for creating a recovery drive.
To do this
Open Command prompt as Administrator (Search for Command in start menu, Right click on command prompt and select “Run as Administrator)
- Enter the password (if it asks for, else proceed)
- Now enter this command and press enter: recimg /showcurrent
- Now if you see this message “There is no active custom recovery image”, it means that you have to create a recovery image on your computer to proceed.
Follow these steps to create custom recovery image (only if you don’t have Recovery partition present on your computer )
- Enter these two commands one after another
- Enter this command and press enter: mkdir C:\RefreshImage
- Now enter the second command and press enter: recimg -CreateImage C:\RefreshImage
- Wait till the creating recovery image process completes
Follow Below steps to create Windows 8 USB recovery drive
- Insert your USB drive (formatted USB drive with minimum of 500 MB free space)
- Type “recovery drive” in windows search
- Now click on “Create Recovery Drive“
- In “Create Recovery Drive” check “Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive” check box
- Now Click on “Next“
- Now select your USB drive from the available device list
- Click on Next
- After that Click on Create to being the Windows 8 recovery drive’
- After completing the process click on Finish
- Remove your USB drive by ejecting it
That’s it! You have successfully created a Windows 8 USB Recovery Drive. You can use this drive to Reset or refresh your Windows 8 PC.
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