Thanks to Microsoft’s new upgrade policy, it is believed that many users have upgraded to the Windows 10 operating system for free. Compared with the independent installation, this way of upgrading is much convenient indeed. But if there’s any problem in the system and need to be reinstalled, a recovery USB is lifesaver. Otherwise you have to reinstall Windows 7 or 8 and then upgrade again. In order to eliminate these unnecessary hassles, it is obviously necessary to learn how to create a Windows 10 recovery USB drive.

To create a Windows 10 recovery USB disk:

1.Open the search box and type “create a recovery drive”. Or open the control panel and select the recovery option. Then click create a recovery drive.

2.Select “Back up system files to the recovery drive”.



3.After the next step, it will check the system and calculate the required backup space size, then tell you how much memory of a usb drive you need to insert (at least 4GB). It is worth noting that this step removes all of the original content from the usb drive. In addition, you need to make sure that the current Windows 10 is active.

4.After clicking “create”, the tool starts creating the recovery drive.

5.When the process is over, you have your recovery USB ready.

If you don’t want to completely reload your system, Windows 10 offers other options. Click Settings in the start menu, and then enter the Update & Security > Recovery, which contains multiple recovery options.

1.”Reset this PC” can be used to reload the system directly, but you can choose whether to keep your personal files. If you updated from Windows 7 or 8, you can choose “Go back to an earlier build” to roll back to the previous system version, but this option is only available for one month after the upgrade.

2.“Advanced start-up” allows you to load your media media after the system is restarted, and you can access the firmware of the system or restore the system from the mirror.

The recovery drive is primarily intended to restore the win10 system by restoring the win10 to a previous state, but this feature does not restore applications and data. There are a number of third-party apps that can help you recover data easily, such as RePicvid Free Photo Recovery Tool. This software allows you to restore lost photos, videos, audio files and save recovered files.