[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Windows Recovery Drive

[Drew King]

Thanks Peter,

One more thing to bear in mind. Microsoft often says that it needs 16 
gigabytes of space to create your recovery drive with the system drive 
files and a 16 gigabyte flash drive has just less than 16 gigabytes of 
space on it and you don't want to skimp in this area. Even if you can 
manage to get your recovery drive to fit on a 16 gigabyte flash drive 
you might find yourself out of luck in a year. Every time Windows Update 
modifies your computer with security fixes and system upgrades the size 
of the system recovery disk gets bigger so essentially it grows over 
time and every year you re create the drive it's going to be a little 
bit bigger and need just a little bit more space so get that 32 
gigabytes to be safe!

 From that article:
"Windows updates to improve security and PC performance periodically, so 
we recommend you *recreate the recovery drive annually*."

Oh, and if anyone's interested I can do a short tutorial/workshop to 
help folks who have an interest in windows 11 booting from a USB drive. 
In order to get an early look at windows 11 without getting a new 
computer or upgrading your existing system or running virtual machine 
software you can install windows 11 or Windows 10 directly to a USB 
flash drive so that when you boot your computer from USB it runs windows 
11 instead of whatever operating system you have on your C drive. If you 
use the windows 11 download ISO file you will have a trial of windows 11 
that you can keep recreating every 60 days should you wish to. It won't 
affect your main system running Windows 10, or even Mac OS. Yes, Intel 
Macs can dual boot Windows 10/11 from USB with the right utility.

Additionally, I have another utility that I use called Rufus to create 
bootable USB versions of Linux Mint in particular. It creates a second 
persistent partition for data. I will share the information that I have 
running Linux from USB and it's usefulness. Basically, you can in this 
case use a 16 gigabyte or larger flash drive that boots in less than 30 
seconds off a current model computer. You can update packages, create 
bookmarks and documents etc.. Every time you boot everything comes back 
as if it were a real computer. Use a regular external hard drive and you 
can use that as your permanent Linux computer should you not want to 
have a separate physical computer for Linux.

Several Linux distributions offer what they refer to as a "Live" version 
that boots/runs from CD/DVD very slowly and have no option for saving 
anything once you power down. Now you can use this utility to convert 
that live CD/DVD into a permanent USB computer!


Drew.



On 12/23/2021 7:08 PM, Steve Isenberg wrote:
> And
> For what it’s worth, I have put several related links that I got from 
> Drew, on our wiki page
> https://LCTG.toku.us <https://LCTG.toku.us>
> For those who missed the presentation on windows 11, I’ll post the 
> video as soon as I can (let me know if you want to know where it’s 
> released)
> -steve
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 2:11 PM Peter Albin <palbin24 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>     During yesterday's great presentation on Windows 11, there was a
>     mention of creating a "Windows Recovery Drive". As there was some
>     discussion on this topic, here's a link
>     <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-a-recovery-drive-abb4691b-5324-6d4a-8766-73fab304c246>for
>     details from Microsoft and instructions for Windows 10 and Windows
>     11. There are links on this page for other windows versions as well.
>
>     Peter
>
>
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