creating recovery disk

[Bandido51]

I don't have a problem as far as logging on and windows seems to be running OK, the problem here is that I want to create a recovery disk using my 32GIG USB.
I can see the USB disk with the rest of the drives and it will store anything except the recovery.
(1) the Recovery Creator starts and then it is saying connect USB, install try and over and again, it is greyed out.
(2) go in another way create disk image, states, The Drive is invalid.
The Drive is set at NTFS file system, the drive letter is D and the name is called Windows 10 RE.
How do I get this to work, I have tried over and over again. Does anybody know the answer. Could it be because I need 34GIG, but should it not be saying the drive is to small, if this is the case.
Please note! I had done this the first time and it worked the very first time. unfortunately my son erased the thumb drive to put some music in it, It is set for NTFS same as my Windows and yes it has been formatted and re-formatted, still no change. However, I can back up files unto it, but I can't create a disk image on it.

 

[medab1]

Hello,

I don't use Recovery Creator. 🙁

I use Macrium Reflect.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

Using maximum compression my system image is small-

My usb is formatted as ntfs so I get 1 big image file instead of a bunch of 4 GB files like you get if it is formatted as Fat32.
Fat32 can only handle 4 GB files.
NTFS can create files of any size. --- Up to the pita byte range anyways.

I also use the boot time recovery environment--

The free version of Reflect now supports the boot time environment.

I've been using it to make system images for several years now & it works good.

I've got the Server edition but the free version works good.

You might want to try it.

Just trying to help.