How do you create a Windows 8.1 recovery drive?

It is always a  good practice to create a recovery disc in case you need to start windows or you encounter starting or installing windows. In Windows 8.1(also in Windows 8) you can create a recovery drive using a USB memory drive.

Follow these steps:

• Hold down w key and click Windows Key

Search Settings pane will open

• Search for 'Recovery Drive'
• Choose 'Create a recovery drive' option from the drop-down list

User Account Control (UAC) will be displayed

• Click Yes

Recovery Drive window will be displayed with the page heading 'Create a recovery drive'. The

option 'Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive' is checked by default.

• Accept this default and click Next.

Recovery Drive window's next page 'Connect a USB Flash drive' is displayed.

• Connect a 16GB  USB Flash Drive (8GB Nominal won't do)
• Click Next

You get a message that everything on the drive will be deleted.

• Click Create

The drive gets formatted first; utilities will be copied and following this recovery partition will be copied;

 

You get the message that recovery drive is ready. You have the option to delete the recovery

partition on your computer. I did not choose this option.

• Click Finish.

You will not get any other message.

 

The contents of the recovery drive is as shown.