Windows recover disk not working

[nistka93]

Hi, My hard drive was dying, so I made a recovery USB with system files using the tool provided in windows 10. Now I have my new hard drive in the laptop, but can not figure out how to recover using the USB. It seems like the recovery software can not see my hard drive, although the hard drive test in BIOS says its there and tests fine. Any ideas?

 

[itsVance]

If I am not mistaken the windows 10 tool your talking about only creates a recovery USB that takes up 250MB of the flash drive. It needs to work with an existing backup image you have created.

If you don't have that, there are a few options.

You could sometimes clone the recovery partition of a failing drive and run recovery with the new drive.

or

Microsoft has ISO's available for download if your company qualifies.

or

You could buy a recovery flash disk off eBay. I have seen some advertised that will allow you to install any version of Windows providing you have the OEM windows key the manufacturer included on the computer.

Sounds like you might have a Windows 10 DVD though.

If you own a copy of Windows 10, just install it and download your drivers from the manufacturers website.