Unable To Create Recovery Drive

[James Talbot]

YourUSB drive must be formatted before creating a recovery drive. Otherwise, you may get the message says your USB drive cannot formatted when you create a recovery drive, and then you are unable to create recovery drive in Windows 10.

Note: The Back up system files to the recovery drive gives you a chance to reinstall Windows 10/11 when you cannot troubleshoot your computer with other recovery tools, such as System Restore, Startup Repair, Command Prompt, etc.

When you are stuck in unable to create recovery drive in Windows 10/11, you can make use of the free recovery drive creator - AOMEI Backupper Standard to create recovery drive. It is a reliable tool and highly recommended by millions of users because of its intuitive interface.

If you choose to upgrade to higher editions, you can create AOMEI Backupper Recovery Environment to help you easily perform system backup restore or other backup/restore operations when the system crashes.

After creating recovery drive in Windows 10/11, you can boot your computer from USB recovery drive by setting BIOS boot order. Then you can restore Windows 10/11 to normal, and the problem will be resolved.

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Some Windows users reported that they couldn't create a recovery drive on a USB flash drive or a local drive. If you get this error message, "We can't create a recovery drive. A problem occurred while creating the recovery drive", it means that creating windows 10/8/7 recovery drive failed.

Windows recovery drive, basically is a DVD or USB drive with copied Windows OS, which is widely used to access a failed Windows system and restore the failed or crashed Windows 10/8/7 immediately.

The last but effective way that you can try is to create a Windows USB recovery drive in another way. It is to turn to a third-party bootable USB creation tool to solve the problem of Windows can't create a recovery drive.

EaseUS system backup software - EaseUS Todo Backup can help. It's a perfect alternative to replace Windows recovery drive that you can back up Windows OS and then restore the computer anytime from the bootable disk when your OS cannot boot up.

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Todo Backup on your computer, and click Create Backup on the home screen and then hit the big question mark to select backup contents.

Step 3. Your Windows operating system information and all system related files and partitions will be automatically selected so you don't need to do any manual selection at this step. Next, you'll need to choose a location to save the system image backup by clicking the illustrated area.

Step 4. The backup location can be another local drive on your computer, an external hard drive, network, cloud or NAS. Generally, we recommend you use an external physical drive or cloud to preserve the system backup files.

Step 5. Customiztion settings like enabling an automatic backup schedule in daily, weekly, monthly, or upon an event, and making a differential and incremental backup are available in the Options button if you're interested. Click "Backup Now", and the Windows system backup process will begin. The completed backup task will display on the left side in a card style.

If your computer says it cannot find the recovery environment, you can restart it with the command prompt. To do this, press "Windows + R" on your keyboard and type "cmd". In the command prompt, type "C: \windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe" and hit enter. This will open the System Restore Wizard. From here, you can choose a restore point and follow the instructions to reset your computer. If you don't have a restore point, you can try using the "Startup Repair" option in the Recovery environment.

I downloaded Lion but I get the screen "Install Failed" around 31 minutes. It tells me that OSX can't be installed because "a recovery system can't be created". I went through Disc Utility and cleaned things up with the repair function and tried again, no luck. Then I noticed that apart from my standard Apple journaled partition on my internal HD, there was another 30 GB partition assigned to Windows. I have no idea how it got on there as I don't use Windows on this computer. Perhaps a vestige from Boot Camp? Here's the question: Can I just delete that part of the HD and try again? If so, how do I go about deleting that WIndows partition without disturbing the rest of the HD contents? Is it even worth the effort? I just wish Apple had foreseen this problem as from what I have read, I am not the only one suffering from this glitch. Thanks for your help as always!!

Note that I do not see the Recovery partition during start up and when I am trying to access my Bootcamp partition, I get a blue screen stating PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED. So I am afraid, it makes Lion install but kills your bootcamp partition.

Yes you can delete windows partition with disk utility or boot camp assistant booth in the utilities folder in applications folder,also try create a ten gb partition and call it Recovery so may Lion can use it for recovery i know some people with your problem doing that can install Lion.

There are still problems with Windows 7 and Lion on the same disk. Not everyone runs into the same problem. And Apple always warned not to change, add or use anything other than BC Assistant, though only having two partitions seemed too limiting for many.

Goes w/o saying to make sure you are ready, have the backups needed to recover and restore. And you can use the new Recovery partition to restore the OS volume from TimeMachine so you want to leave it, you want to keep the Lion installer if it hasn't been deleted, and should be able to go back to Snow Leopard.

Solved! By creating the Recovery partition the number of partitions increase and the bootcamp partition get another number. Bij manually modifying the boot.ini file (hidden file, I used TextWrangler to find and edit) in the bootcamp partition I could adjust the partition number to the new partition number (I used disk utility repair Bootcamp disk, in the output it states the number).

I finally got Lion installed on a 4 year old Macbook Pro after having problem that started this discussion. Also had additional problems. I got here via Googling so thought I'd put my "success story" path here.

More Googling and started getting info that disk probably did not have large enough contiguous free space to form partion of any useful size. This would screw up Lion trying to create recovery as well as trying to create a partion directly. I'm not qualified to judge technical correctness but sounded plausible.

iDefrag stopped twice with error about power outage or something else and gave file it was working on when it stopped. I trashed the two (old dmg files). Think computer may have timed out and shut down - I kept forgetting to check the power settings. You really want to do this overnight. Also suggbest you delete your browser cache's before you start - hundreds of fragments.

BTW: WHAT is the big deal with Mission Control? Has no one ever used Cmd + Tab to see open apps and then holding down the Cmd key and using Tab key to switch between them? Windoze had this (Alt + Tab) from the very first version of windows. Possibly there's a subtlety I'm missing - I do that frequently.

BooksFromCambridge, thank you so much for solving my problem. On my own, I'd bought iDefrag and it kept hanging up on bad files. After deleting my third bad file, I sort of gave up hope that the long process of defragging, finding a bum file and deleting and then re-defragging would actually solve my issue.

If anyone has the "can't create a recovery disk" issue and wants to avoid doing something as destructive as Apple's solution to install Lion on an external, then wipe the internal, etc - the following DOES work:

2. Defrag using either Full Defrag or Compact. Compact works about 30 times faster and solves the Lion issue. Wish I knew this before doing 4 hour scans to find one bad block and have to start over again.

I had the recovery partition could not be created error and it stopped Lion from installing. I created a 2GB partition on my main drive and then ran the installer again and it worked. The 2GB partition ended up being 25GB for some reason.

I found that if you go into Disk Utilities and created a small partition (say 5GB) then delete this parition right after creating it. Then go through the Lion install process again. Seemed to fixed this error.

After trying all of the other suggestions I just did this, created a small 5 gb partition. I didn't even take the time to delete the partition before restarting the lion download. It worked perfectly! Definitely try this first it is the quickest and easiest solution! Thanks Sunnysidesounds!

Recently I bought a asus vivobook notebook which has genuine win 10 home pre-installed. But I have installed ubuntu 16.04 alongside it. For doing so I had to shrink the partition in which windows is installed. I have done it with windows' built in disk manager. Now I want to make a recovery disk so that I can recover my genuine windows in future. So I go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\RecoveryAnd clicked Creat a recovery driveThen Next on the new window. But after that it says

But as shown in Fig1 windows has a recovery partition in disk1(last partition). Is it the shrinking that caused this damage? If so what are the alternatives to recover my genuine windows now? Or how can I help myself with that recovery partition on my hard-drive and what is it for? Or is it anything else that causing this problem?

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