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Windows 11 Create Recovery Drive
I recently upgraded to Win11 24H2 and when I went to create a recovery drive I ran into problems. After telling Windows that I would like to Create a Recovery Drive including system files Windows went off in search of media and came back and told me i needed a 32GB thumb drive. Tried it without system files and no luck either. No matter what kind of thumb drive 32GB, 64GB, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Formatted NTFS, FAT32, exFAT. Whether I formatted the drive using the file explorer utility, or using DISKPART and cleaning the drive and restoring the partition and reformatting. Nothing worked. sfc /scannow and DISM did't show any problems either. I know I can and i did, use a third party application to create a recovery disk, I would like to use the built in Microsoft tool. Any suggestions??
4 Replies
- XaviiorCopper Contributor
I'm having the same issue I have tried all the suggested solutions, with 128 Gb drives, nothing has worked.
- swede1128Copper Contributorundefined
- QuentinNashIron Contributor
Ensure your Windows 11 system is fully updated. Sometimes, bugs in the recovery drive tool are fixed in updates.
- swede1128Copper Contributor
The windows update tool tells me there are no updates available.