How to Create a Windows 10/8/7 Repair Disk or Recovery Drive (3 Ways)

Most Windows users tend to reinstall the computer or perform a clean install of Windows 10 when facing system failure or crash issues. However, reinstalling Windows might delete some essential data on your PC, leading to severe consequences that you can't afford.

Fortunately, Microsoft has provisioned for this by creating a Windows Recovery Drive or a System Repair Disc, should there be an unexpected system failure or crash. So, how do you create a repair disk for your Windows 10 computer? The answers are here.

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Part 1: Create a Recovery Drive in Windows 10/8/7 (Built-in Tool)

It's a good idea to create a Recovery Drive so that if your PC has a major problem, such as a hardware failure, you can use the Recovery Drive to get back up and running without having to reinstall Windows 10/8/7.

Microsoft provides ways for Windows 10/8/7 users to create a system repair or bootable drive for their respective operating systems. In Windows 10/8, this is called a Windows Recovery Drive, while in Windows 7 it's referred to as a System Repair Disc. Here's how to use Microsoft's methods to create a system repair disc or bootable drive in Windows 10/8/7.

Create a Windows 10 recovery drive using the built-in feature in Windows 10:

Get a 8- to 16-GB USB drive

Step 1. Insert your USB drive into your computer. In the Windows 10 Settings panel, click “Recovery.”

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Step 2: Go to the “Advanced recovery methods” section and choose “Create a recovery drive.”

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Step 3. If you want to use the drive to reinstall Windows or restore a previous version of Windows, check the Back up system files to the recovery drive box. Click Next.

If you used this drive to back up your system files, you can also use it to reinstall Windows. If you didn't back up your system files when you created the recovery drive, Reset this PC and Recover from the drive won't be available.

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Step 4. Wait for the wizard to prepare to copy the files to your flash drive. Select your USB flash drive as the recovery drive, then click “Next.”

Step 5: Confirm the warning message that states, “Everything on the drive will be deleted. If the drive contains any personal files, make sure you have backed up those files,” and then click Create.

When you see the final message that the drive is ready to be used for recovery, click Finish.

The steps to restore Windows 10 from a USB drive are as follows:

Once created, you can use the Recovery USB drive to restore Windows 10. Here are the steps to use a Windows 10 Recovery USB to restore Windows 10:

Step 1: Connect the recovery drive, and then turn on your computer.

Step 2. Choose Troubleshoot and select a recovery option.

• Restore from a System Restore point by going to "Advanced options" > "System Restore." This will remove recently installed apps, drivers, and updates that might be causing problems on your PC, but it won't affect your personal files. • Select "Reset this PC," then choose whether to keep or delete your files. • Choose "Recover from a drive." This will reinstall Windows 10 and remove any personal files, apps, and drivers you've installed, as well as changes you've made to settings.

Recover Windows 10 from Recovery USB Drive

However, a Windows Restore Point is more of a system snapshot feature and doesn't guarantee a complete backup. If the snapshot gets corrupted or your current PC becomes unusable, it's almost impossible to restore the backup. That's why you can create a Windows 10 recovery drive with professional backup and recovery software.

Part 2: Creating a Windows 10 Repair Disk with the Tool

As mentioned above, the Windows 10 repair USB created with built-in tools (Recovery Media Creator) doesn't work well on different systems. You can use Todo Backup tool to save system backup image to an external hard drive, network disk, and other storage devices. Download this system backup utility and create a system image step by step.

1. Step 1. Create a Windows 10/8/7 System Image
2. Step 2. Create Emergency Disk with Todo Backup
3. Step 3. Restore Windows 10 with Recovery USB Drive

Step 1: Create a Windows 10/8/7 System Image

Before your computer crashes or gets damaged, you need to make a system backup in advance with tools like Todo Backup.

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• Flexible backup scheduling, compression, and instant recovery options.
• Boot from emergency disk to access your computer even if it won't start up.

Step 1: On the main screen, tap on Select Backup Content.

Step 2: Click on Operating System from the four options.

< strong > Step 3. Todo Backup will automatically select your system partition. You just need to choose a destination for the backup.

Step 3: Create System Backup

Step 4. You can choose to save the backup file on your local disk or a NAS.

Step 5: After the backup is completed, you can right-click on the backup task on the left to check its status, recover, open, or delete the backup.

Process 2. Create an Emergency Disk with Todo Backup

In order to be able to boot from the USB drive, you need to create a WinPE rescue disk using the Todo Backup tool.

Step 1: Grab a USB drive that you can write to.

Create Emergency Disk

Step 2. Launch and install Todo Backup on computer B.

Step 3: Click on "Tools" and then select "Create Emergency Disk"

Create Emergency Disk

Step 4. Choose where you want to install the boot loader. You can create an ISO file, or make a bootable USB drive or CD/DVD.

Step 5: Click Create to get started.

Step 3: Restore or Reinstall Windows 10 using the Recovery USB Drive If you encounter issues during the installation process, you can use the recovery USB drive you created earlier to restore or reinstall Windows 10. Follow these steps: 1. Insert your recovery USB drive into your computer's USB port. 2. Restart your computer and press F12 continuously (or F2, F10, Esc, depending on your computer brand) while it's booting to enter the Boot Menu. 3. In the Boot Menu, select to boot from the USB device. This might be labeled as "USB Device," "Removable Devices," or a similar option. 4. Your system will boot from the USB drive and load the recovery environment. 5. You may see options to choose your language and keyboard layout; select them and click "Next." 6. Click "Troubleshoot" ( Troubleshoot). 7. On the Troubleshoot page, select "Reset this PC." 8. Next, you'll have two options: "Keep my files" and "Remove everything." If you want a complete wipe of the hard drive, choose "Remove everything"; otherwise, select "Keep my files" to retain your personal files. 9. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the resetting process. This might take some time, so please be patient. 10. After the reset is finished, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall with default settings and the language, region, and keyboard layout you previously selected. Please note that this process will delete or overwrite your previously installed Ubuntu system. Therefore, make sure to back up all important data before proceeding.

Then, you need to boot from the emergency disk and restore Windows 10/8/7.

Step 1: Connect the Windows recovery USB drive to the computer and power on while holding down "F2". Choose to boot from the Todo Backup tool.

Step 2. Launch Todo Backup, select your system image or other backup image, then click on "Restore".

Part 3: Create a System Repair Disc if You Can't Boot

In some cases where the system fails to boot, you may not need to restore the backup because the boot problems might be caused by MBR errors, lost partition drive letters, and so on. In this case, if you have boot issues, you can use a disk partition tool like Partition Master to create a bootable disk and rebuild MBR.

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Step 1: Create a bootable WinPE disk

2. Launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, and click "Create WinPE Bootable Media" on the toolbar. Choose to create the bootable media on a USB drive. If your computer has a CD/DVD drive, you can also choose to create the bootable media on a CD/DVD. 3. Click "Start" to finish the creation process.

Create a Bootable Disk

Step 2. Boot into the Partition Master Live USB

1. Connect the bootable USB or CD/DVD to your computer. 2. While rebooting, press F2 or Del to enter BIOS. Set it to boot from “Removable Device” or “CD-ROM Drive.” It should then automatically run Partition Master.

Step 3: Rebuild the MBR

2. Right-click on the disk with the corrupted MBR, and then select "Rebuild MBR" to continue. 3. Choose the MBR type according to your current operating system, then click "OK".

5. Click the “Perform Operation” button in the top-left corner, and then click “Apply” to create the MBR. Your computer should now boot normally.

Rebuild MBR

Conclusions

That's all about how to create a Windows 10 system repair disc. If you encounter boot issues, you can download partition manager software to rebuild MBR to solve the problem.

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