Can't create recovery drive on this PC

i think its the type of Win 8 that u have that prevents u from doing this. You need the win 8 disc to make a recovery portion.

Is a fresh Windows 8 x64 (RTM) installation. Only thing that I can think of is it has UEFI and Secure Boot enabled.

I'm having the same problem on Windows 8 Pro x64 (fresh installed back a few months ago when it was released). However I've got an older motherboard so it doesn't use Secure Boot.

I was originally trying to boot into Safe Mode but couldn't find Troubleshoot in the advanced start up options, and eventually succeeded by using msconfig (I suspect that Troubleshoot being missing is a related problem). Once in Safe Mode I used the command sfc /scannow to repair Windows files, and it said it found and repaired some files, but it hasn't fixed either this problem or the missing Troubleshoot option.

Not sure what has gone wrong since it used to be running fine in the past, but I've had to manually turn the power off several times in the last few weeks because of Windows freezing, and that's not great for the system. I haven't tried reinstalling the system since apparently that may not fix the problem according to the posts in this thread.

Hi,

Nothing new regarding this issue? Would be nice to know which files are missing...

Please answer the question or find a fix to the problem.

I am having the same problem with a new windows 8 install.

Hi:

I tried this routine but it told me I could not create the driver because files were

missing.

What files?

Tnk

John Menzies