windows 10 bootable system repair disc

The process in Windows 10 to create that RecovHi dand10 

The Recovery disk you are referring to is PC specific, so there is no way to download that from the Internet, because there is no 'One Size fits All' version of that recovery disk ery Disk accessible from the Control Panel, does allow the disk to be created on a DVD or a USB flash drive . . .

Hi again Dave,

And Bingo, Success!  Thanks to you for staying with me on my month-long search on how to create a Windows 'System Repair Disc' (but on a bootable USB , --instead of the usual bootable CD/DVD media).

      I had never looked into that "Recovery>Create a Recovery Drive" option in the Control Panel that you referred to, --probably because it had the name 'Recovery drive" attached to it, while I was looking for something with the name 'Repair Disc' on it! 

But anyway, I created the 'recovery drive' on a USB (w/o the system files, and all), and guess what:  It gave me EXACTLY  EXACTLY what I wanted, --a 'System Repair Disc' function but on a USB! (In fact the program code on this USB drive is apparently the same code as on my DVD System Repair Disc ; ie. the size of my DVD System Repair Disc is 525 MB and the size of this USB Recovery Drive is 529 MB!

  Incidently, the reason I've been looking hard for a USB version of the System Repair Disc is that while my 6yr-old Toshiba laptop runs excellent I'll probably be thinking of moving up to a new one soon, and many of the newer Laptops are not coming with optical DVD drives anymore; everything seems to be going USB now.

       So thanks so much again Dave, for managing to finally steer me in the right direction on this issue.

NOTE: I had spent a lot of time on the phone and in 'remote sessions' with Microsoft technicians pursuing this issue, and while they were very helpful and said they knew exactly what I needed, they had me downloading large 'Media Creation' .iso files, burning them to USB's, etc etc, --and in the end, none of which being the simple solution that  I really needed. 

Dan D.

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Backup and Restore (Windows 7) was carried over to Windows 10 so that people who used it to make a backup in Windows 7 can restore their backup in Windows 10. It's not supported for making new backups.

Look, it's not my role to persuade you, only to inform. You do what feels right to you and live with the results.

Hi BulldogXX,

Normally, I think at this point I would have to say that "I give up!" , --in that your answer here would seem to 'defy all logic'.

But in thinking a bit more about it, maybe there's a little more to it, in that perhaps yours and my perspective on 'backup' is quite different. Tell me if I'm right.

        It appears to me that your perspective of 'backup' centers only around backing up personal files and data, --in which case you certainly do not require or need use of the built-in Windows "System Image" program. (There are better and faster 'file backup' functions in Windows for performing this than the 'Windows System Image' utility.)

       My perspective on 'backing up', however, is much broader in that all of my backup's are always complete or 'total backups', --which includes 'everything' on your entire internal HD (ie. all personal files & data, and most importantly a copy of your system's current OS and Recovery code (probably some 30+ GB in itself).  Microsoft's built-in Windows "System Image" utility program is required here in handling this kind of  'total backup' function (unless you have a 3rd Party equivalent), and also saves it to a bootable media that lets you easily restore/recover a crashed/corrupted system back to where it was at the time your 'saved' system image was last created. (This is my primary concern, --since my small personal files/data backup needs fit in fine with my more crucial “system OS” backup plan ). 

       So in summary, maybe it's just that you are arguing from a 'personal files & data only' backup perspective, while I've been intent at trying to address my 'total system needs' backup perspective,(which of course always involves use of the built-in System Image utility, --no matter what Version of Windows you're on).

What do you think?

Thanks, 

 Dand10

Hi Dan

Your question is a bit unclear, that Recovery Disk option still exists in Windows 10, that is only suitable to boot up an ailing PC, do you want a boot disk for installing Windows 10 on a blank Hard Drive?

Are you unable to boot into Windows 10 and you are trying to create a recovery USB outside of Windows 10?

Hi Dave, thanks for your quick response    and question.

To maybe clarify a little better:

I am not talking about a Windows "Recovery Disc" per se here, (which is used more for installing/reinstalling a 'new' copy of Windows 10) etc. I am talking about the Microsoft Windows "System Repair Disc", a small (525GB) utility program used to simply boot up a 'corrupted' OS computer (outside of Windows) and straight into a smaller self-contained "OS Recovery" module, --from where you can then easily 'restore' (replace) your corrupted OS with a previously saved (backed-up) 'System Image' from an external Hard  Drive.   The thing is though, the "System Repair Disc" requires use of an optical CD/DVD drive; and I would like to know if anyone out there knows whether it's available for use on a USB drive?

Thanks again,

Dan D.

Hi Dan

Your question is a bit unclear, that Recovery Disk option still exists in Windows 10, that is only suitable to boot up an ailing PC, do you want a boot disk for installing Windows 10 on a blank Hard Drive?

Are you unable to boot into Windows 10 and you are trying to create a recovery USB outside of Windows 10?

The 'system repair disc' by that and similar names is a legacy technology that fell out of favor many years ago. It's replacement is the backup image, which is an exact copy of the hard drive (or a partition) that can be made in minutes.

When restored, which also takes minutes, the computer returns to exactly as it was when the image was made, with no need to recover, repair or reinstall anything.

There is an entire industry built around imaging, and many of these same developers now make consumer-friendly versions of their software.