How to create a Windows 8 Recovery Drive?

A Windows 8 Recovery Drive allows you to access Advanced Start-up Options. It contains troubleshooting tools for Windows 8 like Command Prompt, System Restore, Refresh Your PC, Rest Your PC, Automatic Repair, etc.

Once we have a newly installed Windows 8 Operating System, the user should create a Recovery Drive. It can be created from any working Windows 8 operating system (Not necessary to create from your own machine). It is same as the System Repair Disc created for the Windows 7 (Available in my Previous Blog).

How To Create a Windows 7 System Repair Disc?

Lets start with the process.

Here are the steps:

1. Open the Windows 8 Control Panel. Windows 8 includes a tool to create a Recovery Drive and very easy to access from the Control Panel.

2. Touch or click on the System and Security link.
Note: You won't see System and Security if your Control Panel view is set to Large icons or Small icons. In your case, just tap or click on Recovery and then move on to Step 5.

3. In the System and Security window, Touch or click on the Action Center link at the top.

4. In the Action Center window, Touch or click on Recovery, located at the bottom of the window.

5. In the Recovery window, Touch or click on the Create a recovery drive link.

6. Connect the flash drive as the Windows 8 Recovery Drive to the USB port. Disconnect all other external drives. It is only to avoid confusion in later steps.

7. Check the Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive check box if it is available.

8. Touch or click on the Next button. Wait while Recovery Drive Creator searches for drives available to be used as a Recovery Drive.

9. On the Select the USB flash drive screen, choose the drive letter that corresponds to the flash drive you want to use as a Windows 8 Recovery Drive. Touch or click on the Next button.

10. Touch or click on the Create button to begin the Recovery Drive creation process.
Important: Please take note of the warning on this screen: Everything on the drive will be deleted. Please make sure you have backed up the personal files on this drive if any, before you Touch or click Create button.

11. Wait while Windows 8 creates the Recovery Drive, which involves formatting the flash drive and then copying the necessary files to it.

12. When the Recovery Drive creation process is complete, you will see a The recovery drive is ready message. Touch or click on the Finish button.

Thanks for reading blog !