[SOLVED] I wanna move recovery partition to usb and delete it

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Hi, i bought a new pc in windows 10 and i found there was a recovery partition. For safety's sake, i want to move all the recovery data to usb. I found this software to copy recovery partition to usb. However, when i reached step 3, the USB is greyed out, i cant pitch on it. I am sure i have enough space on the usb
 
I don't mean to be rude, just to understant, learn and maybe be able to help, but why would you want that?
  1. Ok if you are going to install an other OS but if you are going to keep windows why the partition? Just for the 600mb or so?
  2. If you are going to remove the partition anyway why backup it?
 
I don't mean to be rude, just to understant, learn and maybe be able to help, but why would you want that?
  1. Ok if you are going to install an other OS but if you are going to keep windows why the partition? Just for the 600mb or so?
  2. If you are going to remove the partition anyway why backup it?
Because the USB is a safer place to store this kind of necessary files. I use this software because it's free
 
Hi, i bought a new pc in windows 10 and i found there was a recovery partition. For safety's sake, i want to move all the recovery data to usb. I found this software to copy recovery partition to usb. However, when i reached step 3, the USB is greyed out, i cant pitch on it. I am sure i have enough space on the usb
If it's a used USB format it or defrag it, cloning can only use continuous space.
 
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Can you share some of the articles so I can research?

Yeah, but you also could download the latest version of the windows installer from Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) and use it for recovery. That way you know that you are using the latest tools for recovery, apart from that you can also backup your windows to the external drive if you what a more robust solution.

And remember always backup your important data.
 
In the history of bad PC ideas, this is not in the top 10. Or even 50.
But it IS on the list.

"i heard some articles said "
Please...link us to these articles.
If it's an actual OEM partition including the whole system image it makes sense to have it on usb since it's there to fix a broken disk but if the disk is broken chances are you won't be able to boot at all or the drive will have physical issues.

If it's the small recovery partition that windows makes then yes it's pretty much useless.