Question “recover from a drive” option missing in troubleshooting options ?

[idk12345121]

i recently replaced my motherboard. before i did, my motherboard was extremely weird. for some reason, one of the weird things it did, was stop my SSD (my main drive) from being detected as a bootable drive in my boot options. so today, i created a recovery drive, wiped my SSD, put a fresh copy of windows onto it, and my problem was solved. but then when i went into my trouble shooting options where my “recover from a drive” option should be, it wasn’t there. i made sure the usb was connected, tried multiple ports, restarted multiple times, but it won’t work! windows works fine, but i can’t get this option to show.

can someone please help me??

 

[CountMike]

i recently replaced my motherboard. before i did, my motherboard was extremely weird. for some reason, one of the weird things it did, was stop my SSD (my main drive) from being detected as a bootable drive in my boot options. so today, i created a recovery drive, wiped my SSD, put a fresh copy of windows onto it, and my problem was solved. but then when i went into my trouble shooting options where my “recover from a drive” option should be, it wasn’t there. i made sure the usb was connected, tried multiple ports, restarted multiple times, but it won’t work! windows works fine, but i can’t get this option to show.

can someone please help me??

How did you create "Recovery drive" ? If you put fresh copy of Windows all files on disk were lost so nothing to recover from. Only way is to make full disk backup with a program like Macrium Reflect or similar to another disk before you reinstall Windows and than you can access the files.

 

[SkyNetRising]

can someone please help me??

Not sure, what you need help with?

You replaced motherboard. This usually requires reinstall of windows.
You said, you did that.

What is this "recovery drive"? What software did you use to make it?
What is it supposed to recover?

 

[idk12345121]

How did you create "Recovery drive" ? If you put fresh copy of Windows all files on disk were lost so nothing to recover from. Only way is to make full disk backup with a program like Macrium Reflect or similar to another disk before you reinstall Windows and than you can access the files.

there’s a software in windows in the recovery application next to the “create a restore point” option. when you select this option it packs up all your files on a USB driveand compressed them, and then a software is installed onto it so that it can be used to automatically recover your pc. when you go to the troubleshooting tab after hitting shift+restart, and go to troubleshooting, there will be an option that says “recover from drive”. it’s not there. is that a little more clear?

 

[CountMike]

there’s a software in windows in the recovery application next to the “create a restore point” option. when you select this option it packs up all your files on a USB driveand compressed them, and then a software is installed onto it so that it can be used to automatically recover your pc. when you go to the troubleshooting tab after hitting shift+restart, and go to troubleshooting, there will be an option that says “recover from drive”. it’s not there. is that a little more clear?

That's what I thought but that never worked properly. not like that specialized SW like MR. In any case you don't have anything to restore any more.

 

[SkyNetRising]

there’s a software in windows in the recovery application next to the “create a restore point” option. when you select this option it packs up all your files on a USB driveand compressed them, and then a software is installed onto it so that it can be used to automatically recover your pc. when you go to the troubleshooting tab after hitting shift+restart, and go to troubleshooting, there will be an option that says “recover from drive”. it’s not there. is that a little more clear?

That is something similar to system image creation.

System image is valid only on the computer, you made it.
You changed motherboard. This is a different computer now.
There's no point on restoring system image on a different computer.

 

[idk12345121]

That is something similar to system image creation.

System image is valid only on the computer, you made it.
You changed motherboard. This is a different computer now.
There's no point on restoring system image on a different computer.

probably the most helpful straight forward thing i’ve seen ever. thank you.


i have a question though.

for example, i have steam games that were on that recovery drive. we’re they compressed when i made it? are they no longer accessible through file explorer?

 

[SkyNetRising]

i have steam games that were on that recovery drive. we’re they compressed when i made it? are they no longer accessible through file explorer?

OS drive contents are saved as wim files (windows imaging format).
You can mount those files with dism.

1. Create a directory, where archive contents will be mounted

C:\MOUNT​

2. Mount image (assuming archive is on drive D: , replace with appropriate letter)

Dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:D:\sources\reconstruct.wim /index:1 /MountDir:C:\MOUNT /Optimize /Checkintegrity

3. Access data from archive in C:\MOUNT and copy somewhere else
4. Unmount wim archive

Dism.exe /UnMount-Image /MountDir:C:\MOUNT /Discard

​

There will probably be multiple archive files like

D:\sources\reconstruct.wim​

D:\sources\reconstruct.wim2​

D:\sources\reconstruct.wim3​

You'll have to do the same thing to all of them.