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2 Open your Start menu, type RecoveryDrive.exe in the search box, press Enter, and go to step 4 below. 3 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Recovery icon. Click/tap on the Create a recovery drive link, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below) 4 If prompted by UAC, click/tap on Yes.
Click Start and type: create recovery. Hit Enter on your keyboard. You can also find the Recovery drive creator by opening Control Panel (Windows key + X) Open Recovery. Click Create Recovery drive. Make sure your thumbdrive is connected. Click Next. Wait while the wizard prepares to copy files to your thumbdrive.
Under Device, select the USB flash drive you want to format and use. Under Boot selection, click/tap on the SELECT button, and navigate to and select your 64-bit Windows 10 ISO file. Under Image option (if available), select Standard Windows installation. Under Partition scheme, select MBR. Press the Alt + E keys.
When you boot into the XP Recovery Console from a flash drive you should be able to just replace your missing file since XP has copies of it on your system in other places. A copy of the file should be here: c:\windows\system32\dllcache. or depending on your installation, you might find it here: c:\windows\ServicePackFiles\i386.
to download the Media Creation Tool (Click on Download Tool Now), with that you can download the latest Windows 10 ISO (Select Create Installation Media for Another PC), you can create a bootable USB flash drive (min 8GB) using that tool
The built in function to create a recovery drive is device specific, but you can make a bootable Windows 11 USB on any PC, that is not device specific and as well as being able to install Windows it also has a full recovery environment on the USB.
That indicates it is a boot device which may or may not be a problem .. It may also need to be formatted as FAT32.. That is the file system used for most bootable media for a UEFI based system.. In a way a Recovery Drive is a waste if time.. All it does is create installation media from the files on your machine.. It is a very slow process..
Designed for users of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10, our embedded product key tool will retrieve and display the Windows setup product key embedded in the BIOS or EFI, allowing you to store it for safe-keeping or use it to reinstall Windows with an official Windows setup image." You can also use:
2. Uninstall the last updates. 3. Run a disk check etc. 4. Reset the PC. TLDR, it does not contain applications. A Recovery drive created using Windows can be used for different PCs of different OEMs, that is not a problem. In my opinion, a recovery drive becomes useless if #1-#4 does not work for some reason.
A recovery drive can help you troubleshoot and resolve problems with your PC, even if it does not start. You need to have a USB drive to create a recovery drive. Here's how to create a recovery drive in Windows 10: