I've learned so much from you today! Thanks for the concise, clear instructions. I'm attempting to make a recovery drive. I have an old recovery thumb drive 16 gb. If it has data on it, will it delete that - or should I delete an old recovery?
@askleonotenboom5 ай бұрын
It should delete, and even warn you that it's about to.
@Jackie-kk9tq2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your video! I tried the second method of creating a Windows installation disk on a USB drive. I booted off of it (windows 10) but it only gave me the option to install Windows, there was no option to repair and access the repair tools Any ideas? Thank you
@DavidM20029 ай бұрын
Leo, when I bought a new desktop recently, I had a second SSD installed. The idea at the time was that, once I had all of my apps installed, I would clone C:\ to the second SSD so that if C: ever became unbootable or corrupt, I would go into the BIOS and boot from that second SSD. Periodically I would update the clone from C: so that all of the app settings were updated as well. I thought this small additional cost would avoid creating an external recovery drive and would be much faster to get back up and running. Do you see any problem with that ? (P.S., I partition both SSD's so that the O/S is on one partition and data on the other. )
@askleonotenboom9 ай бұрын
I would ABSOLUTELY test it before you need it. It's not uncommon for something important to have been overlooked. (And what that is varies, unfortunately, hence testing it out.)
@Wol7479 ай бұрын
@@askleonotenboom Leo - test yes - but how? Testing it would presumably wipe the OS on C and reinstall Windows - so if the test demonstrated the recovery drive was corrupt you’d have neither the OS nor the recovery drive useable!
@askleonotenboom9 ай бұрын
@@Wol747 I thought your setup was to remove the damaged drive and then boot from #2. If I'm correct, then test doing that.
@Wol7479 ай бұрын
Reply to wrong person! @@askleonotenboom
@rayt68679 ай бұрын
Hello Leo, do you know if it backups up all the drivers too. Thanks
@askleonotenboom9 ай бұрын
While it's technically not a backup, I do believe drivers are included.
@robert4you5 ай бұрын
Yes, it backups all the drivers as well. When you reinstall Windows this way your PC will be restored to factory settings, as it was when you bought the PC.
@SpiritintheSky.8 ай бұрын
Very good, of course, but I am unable to find the (accompanying?) video "How do I boot from a USB Thumb Drive?" Without it, the recovery drive is of no use. Are you able to help, please?
@askleonotenboom8 ай бұрын
askleo.com/how-do-i-boot-from-a-usb-thumbdrive/ and kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYLSZX2qYp5_qsk
@SpiritintheSky.8 ай бұрын
Thank you, sir. Most useful.@@askleonotenboom
@user-mf1xc5fe3h9 ай бұрын
How does having Bitlocker enabled on the PC effect crreating/using a recovery drive? is that recovery drive secure?
@askleonotenboom9 ай бұрын
The recovery drive does not contain your data so there's really no need for it to be secure.
@TonyasDynamicDesignsАй бұрын
Hi Leo, great video! Will you please help me? I am having a major issue with this. I have a 64 GB thumb drive to use, but when I selected to "create a recovery drive", I got a pop up message that said that I can not create one on my PC! I have a brand new HP desktop Omen with Windows 11 on it. Will you please make a video to show us what to do with this error message? I saw someone else make a video to fix this error message by using the C prompt, but I would rather hear what you have to say please as I can tell you an expert! Thank you so much! ~ Tonya in WV
@TonyasDynamicDesignsАй бұрын
This KZbinr mentioned going to the control panel to do this and I am not getting an error message that way. What do you recommend? Thank you so much!
@askleonotenboomАй бұрын
I've not heard of that error message. Please submit a question over at askleo.com/ask, and after the auto-response you'll be able to include a screen shot in your response.
@helmshardover3 ай бұрын
I've just created a Recovery USB Drive on my laptop (too late to make one for the faulty Desktop...). Inserted into my Win 11 desktop m/c but it doesn't boot automatically from it. and I can see no way to alter the Bios Setup to change that. HELP.
@larryglatt25484 ай бұрын
Thank you: Questions, does the drive have to be formatted a certain way & why would someone else take more than twice the time to explain this differently but essentially the same result?
@askleonotenboom4 ай бұрын
I believe Windows will format it if needed.
@pineappleroad8 ай бұрын
For me every time I have tried this it said something went wrong (For my main desktop PC I have a USB with Windows installation media on it, which can also (attempt to) repair an existing Windows installation, I’ve never tried using the repair function, but I do know the USB will work for doing a clean install)
@intheblim2 ай бұрын
when it starts i get a message saying insert disk then it starts to create recovery disk - is this ok ?
@KingD25079 ай бұрын
How is this different from windows installation drive?
@maltesetony90303 ай бұрын
I have the same question. Why use the recovery drive facility? Why not completely re-install Windows from scratch?
@ALEDAMASАй бұрын
I just needed to rebuild my EFI partition why on a simple error should to reinstall the OS
@johngraves85619 ай бұрын
Is there a way to verify the copy on the thumb drive? Also, how often should you make this backup?
@askleonotenboom9 ай бұрын
Don't know of a verification method. Typically once is fine, or when you take major updates to Windows.
@Jackie-kk9tq2 ай бұрын
Also once I have the recovery drive. can it be used on different models of computers with different Windows 10? If my plan is just to repair to install?
@askleonotenboom2 ай бұрын
It should, yes.
@gjoseph16289 ай бұрын
What must be the storage capacity of the recovery drive? Your example here uses a 16 GB drive. Will this size be enough for everybody?
@askleonotenboom9 ай бұрын
Yes. For current versions of Windows anyway. :-)
@helmshardover3 ай бұрын
@@askleonotenboom I was just told by Win Laptop it has to be 32GB. Perhaps I shouldn't have clicked "include system files"?
@tamyboy128 күн бұрын
Does it also backup drivers ?
@askleonotenboom28 күн бұрын
If "Back up system files to the recovery drive” is checked it should. But remember, this is not a BACKUP. This is a recovery drive. It's not backing up what's on your hard disk, it's creating something you can boot from to recover/repair an existing installation.
@lionelspencer-ward35274 ай бұрын
And for those whose computers will not boot from a USB drive??? Does this work straight on to a CD drive???
@askleonotenboom4 ай бұрын
Yes
@Pig69Ай бұрын
you must change boot priority in bios. make usb boot 1st instead of hdd