How to Create a Recovery Drive

A recovery drive is a useful way to ensure that you don’t lose data in the event of a critical malfunction. It can help you both troubleshoot and fix problems, even if the PC won’t start as it normally would. All you need is a blank, formatted USB flash drive.

Protecting Your PC and Files Creating a recovery drive is a relatively simple process. It does however take a bit of time to create but it’s worth the effort as it could save you a lot of frustration in the future. Step 1 The first thing you need to do is find a USB drive that is large enough and then make sure it is ready to be used. The USB drive you decide to use won’t be able to be used for anything else like storing other files, etc. so make sure it is a spare, or bought specifically for the task. Step 2 A basic Windows 11 recovery file will be less than 500MB but if you choose to include system files in the backup (recommended), so you…

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