How to Create a Windows 8 Recovery Disk

Author: Roger Ahuja
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Hi my name is Roger Ahuja and I'm going to take a couple of minutes here and show you how to make a Windows 8 Recovery disk. You start by pressing the start button on your keyboard or you can also go to the bottom left of your screen and we're going to do a search for recovery here and go to settings and here is an option to create a recovery drive. When the user account control pops up. Go ahead & press yes. And here you will typically going to have a recovery partition that the PC manufacturer offers. This box will typically be checked. In my case it's not because I wiped out the recovery partition and loaded a clean installation of Windows 8 not from the manufacturer. If this box is checked, it will just copy the recovery partition, it's not going to give you an option to create it on a CD if this box is checked or a DVD. So, you're going to have to uncheck that if you want a generic windows 8 disk. If you want a windows 8 recovery disk that is from the manufacturer, then you will probably have to use a USB stick. So, I'm going to go ahead & click next here and now it's going to ask me for a USB flash drive that is at least 256mb and as it says that everything on the drive will be deleted. Now, I don't want to waste a USB flash drive for this, I would rather just use a blank CD or DVD. So, I'm going to click here for a CD or DVD option then it gives me a choice and I can hit create disk. That's basically it.

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  1. Thank You!
  2. hi i have a lenovo y510p and i have made a windows 8 disk image but i forgot to make a repair drive now my computer don't work what should i do
  3. Hi Roger, So I have a problem... Well not me personally, but my friend's laptop is having issues. When we try to reset to factory settings, it says it is missing winload.efi... I was thinking if I made a recovery drive on my Asus, would it work to reinstall Windows 8 on his Toshiba. If not, what would be the next best thing to attempt. Thank you!
  4. Hi Roger...I unchecked the box you stated but the next page on;y had the option to copy to usb, no link to CD creation as in your vid?
  5. I need your help! My laptop is in the restore loop I found out that I have to get windows 8 disc will this work my daughter has the same laptop can I just copy from hers?
  6. WOW THIS VIDEO IS REALLY HELPFUL IF YOU DO NOT NEED A RECOVERY DISC WHILE YOUR WATCHING IT!!!!!!!
  7. can a windows 8.1 recovery disc work on a windows 8?
  8. Please help me, it wont give me the option of using a clear disk instead of a usb flash drive
  9. I need a windows 8 recovery disk because some of the boot files are missing on a win8 laptop that I have, if I got a friend to create a recovery disk and then send me the disk or just the files on the disk would this still work?
  10. The recovery drive and the CD/DVD of window 8.1 is the same thing? 
    Because my PC has a lot of virus and i want to reset my PC, and then can i do it with the recovery drive or i have to do with the CD/DVD of window 8.1?
    when i bought the computer they didn't give me anything CD i have only the Driver Disk Lenovo

  11. Now what if you deleted the partition your drive came with and all of a sudden it tells you that it cant create a recovery drive cuz some files are missing?? and to use an installation disk or media which I clearly dont have..
  12. Brilliant! Thank you :-)
  13. Hi when hitting start I do not have an option to create dvd only backup and restore ( my options are only to back up or restore? I need to make create a system repair disc but am unable to find that option anywhere any ideas? thank you
  14. the option that gives for dvd recovery doesnt appear for me, i have windos 8 on my laptop from toshiba and i dont want to waste a flash drive, plese hellpppppppp
  15. Hello,
    Would making the recovery disc's work if I had to install a new hard drive if the old one broke? Are recovery disc's the installation disc's the don't come with computer's anymore?
    Thank you
  16. Been trying to do this for weeks and only found USB options primarily for Windows 7. Thanks!
  17. since i have 8.1 im assuming things are different since it wont let me use dvds
  18. in my case it asks for at least 16GB.... so what should I do? Can i use multiple DVDs for this case??
  19. Hi, I don't have that blue link in the bottom-left that allows the user to write the media to CD/DVD. I tried doing the wizard with the box (to copy contents of the recovery partition) both checked and unchecked. I want to do this because I also do not want to waste a USB flash drive on a recovery drive. I have a brand new laptop (Lenovo IdeaPad Y410P). Any assistance is appreciated, thanks!
  20. oh and if my laptop goes messed up can i use this to restore it to the way i bought it?