

Search for Create a Recovery Drive and then select it from the results.Log in to the Surface with Administrator rights.Obtain a USB Drive with at least 8GB of capacity and plug it into your Surface.

To create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive, follow the steps below. Personally, I keep one on my key-chain, so I always have it with me.Īlso, once you use a USB drive as a Recovery Drive, you should not use it for anything else because the recovery tools can get messed up – so make sure you have one available just for this purpose. As such, I recommend that every Surface owner has one ready to go at all times. If you don’t know, a Recovery Drive is a bootable USB drive that can be used to repair or recover your Surface, in the event it won’t start normally. Today, I’ll cover how to create and use a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. You can find the previous article here: Create A System image Backup in Windows 10. This is the forth in our Windows 10 Backup and Recovery series.
