{"id":1699,"date":"2016-12-01T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:39:13","slug":"windows-cant-create-a-recovery-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/01\/windows-cant-create-a-recovery-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows: Can’t create a recovery drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 provides the possibility to create\u00a0 a recovery drive on an USB stick. But what's to do, if the creation wizard reports 'We can't create a recovery drive on this PC'?<\/p>\n

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We can't create a recovery drive<\/h3>\n

\"\"Creating a recovery drive on a USB thumb drive, just go to control panel and use the option Create a recovery drive <\/em>(see here<\/a>). Or use the command offered on the control panel page Extended recovery tools.<\/em> After confirming a the user account control a wizard will guide you through the necessary steps.<\/p>\n

\"Create<\/p>\n

You can check or uncheck the option \"Back up system files to the recovery drive.\" (default the option is checked). Clicking Next <\/em>guides you trough the necessary steps to create the recovery drive. You should be able to select the USB thumb driven and so on. But I was greeted by an error dialog, informing me, that it wasn't possible to create the recovery media.<\/p>\n

\"Error<\/p>\n

In my case, I got the error message shown in the above dialog box \u2013 only an hint that an error has occurred \u2013 no further details. But there is a chance to get a 2nd error message.<\/p>\n

\"Error<\/p>\n

The dialog box shown above, indicates a missing file \u2013 but no further details. All a user can do was to click Finish<\/em>.<\/p>\n

How to overcome this situation<\/h3>\n

First of all, I decided to reboot my machine and secondly, I tried another USB thumb drive. But it did not help. Also checking Windows for file corruption brought no result \u2013 everything was reported \"as in health\".<\/p>\n

\"Create<\/p>\n

Only a forum post gave me the hint to uncheck the option \"Back up system files to the recovery drive.\" After I unchecked that option, I was able to create a recovery drive (but the media just contains the Windows PE-Environment). At that point it was clear, the error had nothing to do with a broken USB thumb drive or damaged Windows files.<\/p>\n

The logical explanation was: The wizard could not find the Windows install image, that is needed for a recovery drive. This image is located on a recovery partition, but my system (a test machine from a vender= was delivered without an image at the recovery partition.<\/p>\n

How to fix: Include a system image in Windows<\/h3>\n

Searching the web brought me to this Wiki-Post<\/a>, discussing similar things. I've had a different error message, but the suggestion to repair looked good. So I proceeded the following steps.<\/p>\n

1. I copied the content of a setup DVD to a local folder WinDVD <\/em>on my hard disk.<\/p>\n

2. Then I opened an administrative command prompt window (via Run as administrator).<\/p>\n

3. At least I entered the following commands in the command prompt window.<\/p>\n

reagentc \/disable
\nreagentc \/setosimage \/path D:\\WinDVD <\/em>\\
\nreagentc \/enable<\/em><\/p>\n

The path <\/em>value pointed to my folder containing the Windows image file. It's possible to check the image path, using reagentc \/info<\/em>.<\/p>\n

REAgentC is a support tool to set up a user defined Windows recovery environment (see<\/a>). The commands for reagentc are described within this Technet article<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The commands shown above creates a user defined Windows recovery environment. And afterward I was able, to create a recovery drive on my USB thumb drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[German]Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 provides the possibility to create\u00a0 a recovery drive on an USB stick. But what's to do, if the creation wizard reports 'We can't create a recovery drive on this PC'?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,2],"tags":[532,531,76,23],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-windows","tag-problemlosung","tag-wiederherstellungslaufwerk","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}