Today we are talking about how to make a bootable flash drive specifically designed to restore Windows 8. In addition, on the same flash drive there may be an image of a system that is available on a computer or laptop by default (it is present almost on all laptops with pre-installed operating room Windows 8 system). See also: The best programs for creating a boot flash drive, Windows 8 boot flash drive
Starting the utility to create Windows 8 recovery disk
To begin with, connect the experimental USB flash drive to the computer, and then start typing on the primary screen Windows 8 (not somewhere else, and simply dial on the keyboard in the Russian layout) phrase "disk recovery". The search will open, select "Options" and you will see the icon to start the wizard for creating such a disk.
The Windows 8 recovery disk wizard window will look higher as shown above. If there is a recovery partition, it will also be an active item "Copy the recovery section from a computer to the recovery disk." In general, this is an excellent point and I would recommend to make such a flash drive, including this section, immediately after purchasing a new computer or laptop. But, unfortunately, the recovery issues are usually beginning to be interested in some time later ...
Click "Next" and wait until the system prepare and analyze the connected disks. After that, you will see a list of drives that you can record information for recovery - there will be a connected flash drive among them (important: all information from the USB drive will be removed during the process). In my case, as you can see, there is no restoration section on a laptop (although, in fact, there is, but there Windows 7) and the total amount of information that will be recorded on the USB flash drive does not exceed 256 MB. However, despite the small volume on it, the utilities can help in many cases when Windows 8 does not start for one reason or another, for example, was blocked by a banner in the hard disk MBR boot area. Select the drive and click the Next button.
After reading the removal of all data, click "Create". And wait a while. Upon completion, you will see messages that the recovery disk is ready.
What is on this boot flash drive and how to use it?
To use the created recovery disk, when it is necessary, you need to download the download from the flash drive to the BIOS, boot from it, after which you will see the keyboard layout selection screen.
After selecting the language, you can use the most different means and tools to restore the Windows 8 system. This includes and automatically restore startup and recovery from the operating system image, as well as a tool as a command line, with which you can do, believe me, very much Total.
By the way, in all those situations where to solve the problem with the operating system, you are recommended to use the "Recovery" item from the Windows distribution disk, created by us the disc is also perfect.
Summing up, Windows Recovery disk is a good thing that you can always have on a relatively free USB media (no one bothers to record other data, in addition to the available files), which, in some circumstances and the availability of certain skills, can be healthy.