[SOLVED] trying to create a new recovery drive. windows issues.

[Deepwaterlife48]

so i currently have a nearly 5 year old copy of windows 10 on an old usb. after a recent problem i had, i decided i wanted to make a newer clean version of windows 10. i bought a new usb drive to use as the storage source, but windows 10 says a drive cant be created on this pc? im very confused.

 

[USAFRet]

so i currently have a nearly 5 year old copy of windows 10 on an old usb. after a recent problem i had, i decided i wanted to make a newer clean version of windows 10. i bought a new usb drive to use as the storage source, but windows 10 says a drive cant be created on this pc? im very confused.

How, specifically, are you doing this?
What size is the USB?
What error did it give you?

 

[Deepwaterlife48]

tried using create a recovery drive from the file menu.
usb is 256gb.
"windows cannot create a recovery drive from this pc." i am thinking i i might be able to do it through what its called the media creation tool?

 

[USAFRet]

tried using create a recovery drive from the file menu.
usb is 256gb.
"windows cannot create a recovery drive from this pc." i am thinking i i might be able to do it through what its called the media creation tool?

The MediaCreation Tool will create a brand new Win 10 install USB.
Which, in reading your post, is I think what you need.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

The first part of this:

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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[Deepwaterlife48]

thats what i figured. my old usb recovery drive is from about 2015-2016 when i had my old laptop. i figure a brand new fresh install just in case something goes wrong again will eliminate any issues that could spawn.