bootable recovery partition for windows 10.

Hi, does any knows how to create a bootable recovery partition for windows 10. I'm planning to upgrade to windows 10 and do a proper clean installation.. help me please.. What I know is that macrium reflect creates a image and you can save it in a different drive or wherever and then you can create a rescue disk so you can boot into it and load the image. I'm planning to do that as well but I wanted to have a recovery partition like when you buy a new laptop which is preinstalled.. Does anyone know how to do this? teach me please.. im a newbie.. thanks..

 

A simple search found the app below, though it not free maybe trial i dont know if it will work.

http://www.backup-utility.com/okr/make-a-recovery-partition.html

John.

 

Thanks for the quick reply John.. I did saw that when I searched using google but I'm not sure if thats reliable.. It seems that macrium reflect is the most reliable program to use when doing a back up.. I guess ill just use that.. Anyways thatnks for the reply.. Oh, how do you back up your OS?

 

What I do for Windows 10, mainly since it is completely free and part of the OS itself, is make a system image backup using the built in Windows 7 backup tool. It will want to save that backup image to an external drive usually. However I copy it back to my D drive so I have it on hand, plus I still have it on my backup external drives. Then you can make a recovery drive (USB) to boot from, and then you could use the system image you have saved to recover to a good known state. I think after you do the backup it will ask you if you want to create that recovery drive.

If you go this route I highly recommend creating one after you get the system up and running with complete drivers and everything working properly. This will be about the smallest it will ever be, for me it's usually less that 100GB at that point. Then after a week or two after you get all your programs installed you can make a 2nd image backup for a more configured system. One trick I do is move my games folder from the C drive to another drive temporarily in order to reduce the backup size. From a couple TB back down to a few hundred GB. Then I do a backup, then move the folder back. It's not perfect (if I ever used it I would get errors when steam tries to start) but good enough for me to recover quickly from a problem.

I have to admit I've never used it since modern OS's are much more resilient than older ones. I remember doing clean installs of XP all the time to fix issues. I can't tell you the last time I had to do a reinstall to fix an issue, so these backups I make never get tested. Seems like the only times I reinstall anymore is when I replace my drives.

Also note when you do clean Win 10 install, remove any other drives from your system. Windows 10 has a nasty habit of putting system files on those drives which will come back to haunt you if you ever change them out, or possibly making your backups larger and dependent on that other drive being there. Not a good situation to be in. I have not found any other solutions than just physically removing the drives(disconnecting anyway).

 

I use Acronis True Image for years and i have never had a failed recovery (I just make an image to an external hdd or usb flash memory or even an sdhc card in my notebooks reader, But i use to use Macrium Reflect on my Atom win8.1 Tablet as ATE did not support UEFI x86 at the time, even now ATI will not see my tablets 32gb flash memory (I have not tried the latest updates), but MR works everytime.

I use SSD as boot drive now, and a recovery partition is just a waste of space as i am still on an 256gb ssd.

John.

 

Thanks for your reply guyz. I now know what to do. ^^

 

As mentioned above:

http://www.backup-utility.com/onekey-recovery.html

I've been using it for a couple years now, works well.

 

thanks alot for the info.. what i did is just create a image using macrium reflect.. all good now..

 

Cool can't go wrong with Macrium either.

 

I found an app called "AOMEI Backupper" it creates a backup partition then backs up your Windows to it, finally it adds press F11 to recover to your boot.

There appears to be a trial version, but make sure you backup all you data just in case something goes wrong.

http://www.backup-utility.com/professional.html

John.

 

thanks for the reply... I did saw that program but I wasn't sure if it was reliable so I using macrium reflect without any problems..

 

I have not tried it myself, but it looks professional enough, I would do a clean install and get Windows 10 perfect as you can then make the recover partition.

If you decide to do a clean install, use the Microsoft Window 10 downloaded to get the latest version of Win10


John.

 

I've done the clean install on win 10 already using @Phoenix awesome guide and backup using macrium reflect creating images and making a bootable usb drive..