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swede1128
Copper Contributor
May 12, 2025

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

  • Xaviior's avatar
    Xaviior
    Copper Contributor

    I'm having the same issue I have tried all the suggested solutions, with 128 Gb drives, nothing has worked.    

  • QuentinNash's avatar
    QuentinNash
    Iron Contributor

    Ensure your Windows 11 system is fully updated. Sometimes, bugs in the recovery drive tool are fixed in updates.

    • swede1128's avatar
      swede1128
      Copper Contributor

      The windows update tool tells me there are no updates available.

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