Create a Recovery Drive
Windows 8
To create a recovery drive, follow these steps
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Open Recovery
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Click Create a recovery drive
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Click Yes
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To create a recovery drive, do the following
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If you have a computer from a manufacturer, it may have a recovery drive with special recovery tools.
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If you want to create the drive with these tools, put a check on Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive
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If you do not want to create the drive, leave the box unchecked
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Click Next
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Select the drive you want to use (caution: this will erase everything that is on the drive. If you have something on the drive you want to keep, copy it to another drive)
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Click Next
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One final warning that the drive will be erased in case you forgot about a file on the drive.
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Click Create
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The drive will be created
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Click Finish
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