Can't create recovery drive on this PC

Anonymous
2012-11-10T16:19:44+00:00

Hi guys,

Just tried to create a recovery USB drive. But I find that "We can't create a recovery drive on this PC. Some required files are missing. To troubleshoot problems when your PC can't start, use your Windows installation disc or media."

Uh?

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

Ideas?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-02T21:27:24+00:00

    Well!!!

    If it helped you, about giving "Diego" some real  "Kudos" !!.,

    that would be nice.

    Regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-13T12:11:00+00:00

    Hi if you have only one primary hard drive, usually the (C:) drive and create a partition on this (C:) drive, you will be denied to create a system image of your system or any other sort of recoveries, because the partition belongs to the (C:) drive.

    Your best option is to purchase and 80 or 160 GB hard drive and install it in your computer (If it's a desktop computer).

    They are not expensive and you can get them from 'Micro Center", at this URL :

    http://www.microcenter.com/

    After you install your newly purchased Hard drive, right click on the Start Menu icon in the taskbar, chose "Disk Management".

    You will see you new hard drive.

    Right click on it and  chose Create a new partition, then follow the instructions, and after the completion of the automatic format, your new hard drive will be visible in "This PC" or when you click on the "File Explorer" folder, located on the taskbar.

    In that new HD you can create/store your backup/ restore and a system image.

    Also there you can also save your pictures/ music/videos and other important files.

    Forgot to mention : you will also need to purchase an 8GB USB flash drive ( they are very cheap).

    You will need it  in order to create a recovery USB flash drive, that you will have to  insert in a USB port  prior starting or rebooting, when you need to troubleshoot a problem or restore your computer, using the System image you created and saved in you new Hard drive.

    During reboot or restart Pressing on the CORRECT F1, F2 or F11, F12 key AT THE PROPER TIME, will give you the option to start/reboot from your USB recovery flash drive.

    If you have more question(s) to ask me about this procedure, just ask me.

    Regards.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-11T09:50:08+00:00

    This does not work for me.

    DISKPART shows my RECOVERY partition (900MB) is in Disk 1 Partition 1.

    When I follow the instructions 

    reagentc /setreimage /path \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE [ENTER]

    I get the following message

    REAGENTC.EXE:  The specified path was not found

    My data SSD is Harddisk 0 and my system SSD is Harddisk 1

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-09-07T17:39:56+00:00

    I am using windows 10 and cannot create a recovery drive.  The only message I see is: "Can't Create the Recovery Drive".. a problem occurred while creating the recovery drive.  I tried using a USB drive, a CD RW, and a 450 gigabyte external hard drive, all reformatted before using.

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