Creating a USB recovery drive for Windows 11 is easy if you follow the preparation protocols. We explain what you need to completely recover from a catastrophic failure.

Fix We can't create a Recovery drive on this PC, Some required files are missing error message when creating a USB recovery drive on Windows 11/10.

These are the Windows tools you must know to recover your system when something goes wrong.

Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) in Windows 11 is a resilience feature that uses cloud-based fixes to restore PC user access ...

Because when Microsoft released Vista Service Pack 1 back in 2008, it included a recovery-disc builder very similar to the one bundled with Windows 7.

You can get Rescue and Recovery as a part of the Thinkvantage package for free. <BR><BR>Its a backup solution rather than a image solution, but it does make an image wide backup.

What you need to know Due to a bug, recovery discs created with the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) app will not work with systems running Windows updates from after January 11, 2022.

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2025 Windows security updates are breaking reset and recovery operations on systems ...