Windows 8 has the ability to create a bootable recovery USB flash drive that can be used to troubleshoot your Windows 8, for example, a computer that can not start. A recovery is the same drive as the startup disk repair, but instead is in the CD / DVD, but the USB drive bootable. Once you boot up a Windows 8 computer with Drive Recovery you will have access to a wide range of diagnostic and troubleshooting utilities that can help resolve any problems you may be having.
It should be noted that the recovery is not the same drive as the Windows 8 DVD and you can not use it to install Windows 8. It is also important to create a recovery USB drive on a machine with the same bit-kind of like you need to fix. If you make the drive on a 32-bit machine you will only be able to fix the 32-bit version of Windows 8. The same goes for the 64-bit version of the drive recovery. Last, but not least, Windows 8 will format the USB flash drive that you use to create a recovery drive. Therefore, make sure you backup all your data before starting this process.
To make Drive Recovery, type Drive Recovery in Windows 8 Start Screen. When the search results appear, click on the Settings category and then click on the Create a recovery drive option. This will display the User Account Control prompt, you should click Yes to continue. This will open the Recovery Drive program.
Make sure you have a USB flash drive with at least 256MB entered into the computer and then click the Next button. Now you will be presented with a screen where you will be asked to select the USB flash drive that you want to use to drive the recovery.
Select the USB flash drive you want to use and then click on the Next button. Now you will be shown a warning stating that the USB flash drive will be erased.
If you are ready, click on the Create button and Windows will transform the USB flash drive into a bootable recovery drive.
When finished you will be shown a screen that states that drive the recovery has been made.
You can now remove the flash drive and store it in a safe place.
In the future if you need to use the recovery drive to start Windows, you can put it into a Windows 8 machine and boot from it. If you can not boot from a USB drive then you will need to go into your BIOS and enable as the first boot device. Once your computer starts to boot up from a USB Drive Recovery, you will be presented with a screen asking what keyboard layout you want to use
Select the keyboard layout you want to use by clicking on the left once. You will now be at a screen where you can select the option to perform.
You can choose to Continue to boot Windows 8, Turn off your PC, or use a variety of tools to Issue 8 of your Windows installation. As you are most likely using a recovery drive for Windows 8 does not start correctly, click on the choice issue. This will open a screen problem which contains various tools that you can use to fix Windows 8.
If you click on the Advanced Options option opens a new screen that contains other tools that you can use to troubleshoot Windows 8.
The tools on this screen allows you to perform various diagnostic and repair process on your computer. These options are described below.
System Restore
This option allows you to use System Restore to restore your computer back to the state when it was working fine.
System Image Recovery
This option allows you to restore the system image that you may have made in the past.
Auto Repair
Auto repair tries to automatically detect and fix problems that may cause Windows 8 does not start.
Command Prompt
Recovery Command Prompt is a very powerful tool that provides access to your file system and various repair tools.
When you are finished using one of these tools, you will automatically be returned to the Select screen option where you can continue to use these tools or continue to boot into Windows 8.
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