Introduction
This guide will walk you through the steps required to make a USB repair disk for Windows 10, which ideally should be done before a problem presents itself. A best practice is to make one of these with an old USB stick and leave it in a drawer for a "rainy day".
However if you are having difficulty booting into your OS this can be done using another Windows PC.
What you need
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And click "Download tool now"
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Select "Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD or ISO file) for another PC"
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Click "Next"
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If you are creating a USB for another computer take care to get these settings correct for the computer it will be used on. Language is not so important as it can be changed later.
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If you are creating a back up for the computer you are running the tool on, selecting the check box "Use the recommended options for this PC" will select the settings automatically.
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Once it's finished writing to the disk click "Next"
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And after a short wait you're done!
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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23 Comments
Mr. Bailey. How is this Boot drive different from the Recovery drive that I create directly from my PC? Thanks.
They do the same thing essentially, they allow you to boot and recover your windows installation. However there is a one difference and that's that, I believe, the recovery drive tool only gives you the option to create a disk for the computer you are using. It's exactly like the recovery partition that some computers and laptops have.
My guide is quite generic in that you could create the disk for any Windows 10 installation.
Thanks for the question.
From my practice, UUByte ISO Editor can also create disks for any Windows 10 installation (including Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac).
And compared with the method shared by Mr. Bailey above, UUByte ISO Editor saves time for users because it only takes 3 steps to create a Windows 10 bootable USB on my PC. It has no difficulty for those new users.
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I recommend you add something about how to boot from the USB drive, especially on a machine that has UEFI SecureBoot enabled.
I agree that that part of the process is important, however there are so many variables to uefi that writing a coherent guide for that would be difficult. Not to mention that screen shotting those steps a more difficult (although obviously not impossible).
But thank you for the feed back, I'll consider it in the future.
