recovery drive

As a Windows user, you know that even the most reliable operating systems can occasionally throw an unexpected tantrum. Whether it’s a pesky virus, a catastrophic crash, or an ill-timed update that leaves your machine limping along, understanding your recovery options is crucial for preserving...

As we venture deeper into the digital age, reliance on our devices becomes more critical than ever. What happens, then, when things go awry? Perhaps a hardware failure or a catastrophic software issue? In these moments of turmoil, having a recovery drive can be your saving grace. Today, we’ll...

I have tried to install 7, 8.1, & 10 to no avail. Its starts the install where its reading the files & I get to a point where it doesn't have the drivers to install. I'm asked to scan for them but there are none to be found on install medium. I have a Acrer R11. Is there any way to get Windows...

NET: 1) I have an older Thinkpad T500 which came with Windows 7 and I later upgraded to Windows 10. 2) I had been having issues with it, so I did a “RESET” on it this evening and deleted all of my files and APPS, (by design), and it all seemed to go relatively smoothly. 3) I have been...

My computer is working fine (for now). I have some empty 500 gb drives. I have one empty sata port left on my rather old desktop mobo. What's the easiest way to format (guess I'd have to do that) and create a second backup drive with all my data on it. I probably asked this on some other...

Hi, everyone, In search of a problem that was causing Win 10 to lock up on my XPS13 9343, I enabled driver verifier. Predictably, this is now generating BSODs. This is the expected diagnostic behavior, I gather. The problem is, I have not been able to to get into Windows in any mode that will...

I created a Windows 10 recovery drive on USB a while ago and I reckon I could create an updated version from ;media creation tool'. Can anyone tell me if I can then use this to install Windows 10 on a new PC when I stop using this 8 year old slow model? I have a product code for the original...

Hi, when I make a recovery drive on usb on my desktop it is 16GB in size. When I make a recovery drive on usb for a Lenovo laptop the drive is only 524MB in size. Both are for the same latest version of Windows 10 and I clicked copy system files in both cases. How would the Lenovo recovery of...

Tried to make a usb recovery drive and got error 0x80070005ox90018

Hi! I am in a shit siutation: I wanted to create a recovery drive. I plugged in an external drive with an M and an N Partition. Once i started the wizard, it told me to use either the M or the N drive. I took M, since on N there was the backup of quite a lot of pictures. Then the process to...

Hi, I'm using two win10 PCs (a Pro and a Home). I just built some symlinks in different folders to a target folder mp4 files. Now I have some time to copy these symlinks to my Notebook without having to build all of the symlinks again. That means that the target, which is visible on any of the...

KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED(CLASSPNP.SYS Lenovo laptop L450 corporate environment All genuine software no piracy Hard disk failed so user order a hard disk through finance team we got a Toshiba HDD diagnose test were ok passed only one smart test was not applicable We installed the os through...

I bout a used laptop and am doing a refresh on it to wipe the files, seemed as though the refresh went smoothly. I gets to the point I'm doing the first set up stuff, cortona comes on and asking you to set up the time and your user name. It keeps freezing when trying to finish the set up...

Good afternoon all, I have lost access to my profile after resetting to a 3 month ago System Restore point (needed to reverse some DNS settings that were slowing the laptop down to silly point). I cant access my old profile and cant get to an admin mode from hard re-boot. If I reboot from the...

I did the windows 10 update Friday night and after completing the update I shut down the computer. When I turned it back on it went into a continual loop where the windows 10 symbol would display and the screen would flash on and off. I attemped all of the recovery options and used a recovery...

The recovery drive intentionally has little space as it is not intended to be used beyond storing the recovery image. You should not do anything with that drive (compressing it, adding to or subtracting from its content or absolutely anything else). It's sole purpose is to enable full system...

You could possible save me hours, beyond hours of searching and getting malware/viruses I'm looking for full laptop windows 8 skins. That comes with backgrounds, cursors, custom buttons, ect. Like a totally knew interface. I'm more of a fan of abstract and 3D images. Where would I go and what...

Hi! I installed windows 10 some time ago and now i would like to uninstall/downgrade it to windows 8.1. How ever, my installation stops at 93% and it just says that the installation has failed. Nothing else. My computer is ASUS X73TK. I have created usb recovery drive and tried to install it but...

My Acer Aspire A7600U-UR24 came with windows 8. I made a recovery drive by choosing "create recovery drive" in windows 8. After making the drive i installed windows 8.1 from DVD. Some time later I tried to restore it back to factory with my recovery usb. Every time I try I get "windows cannot...

how do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 How do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 like I can do in win 7 with a repair disk DVD? I followed the instructions and I cannot bring up the usb disk. Please help!! I have had problems with win 8.1 to the...