How to Create a Windows 8 Recovery Drive
A Windows 8 Recovery Drive gives you access to Advanced Startup Options, a menu full of advanced repair and troubleshooting tools such as Command Prompt, System Restore, Refresh Your PC, Rest Your PC, Automatic Repair, and more. After you create a Recovery Drive on a flash drive, you can boot from it if Windows 8 no longer starts properly. Considering its value, one of the first things a new Windows 8 user should do is create a Recovery Drive. If you didn’t and need one now, you can make one from any working copy of Windows 8, including from another computer. Here’s how:
Label and Store the Recovery Drive
You’re not done yet! The most important two steps are yet to come. You should now see the Recovery Drive window. You should also disconnect any other external drives if only to avoid confusion in later steps. This process could take anywhere from a few to several minutes. The last thing you want to do is toss an unlabeled flash drive in your drawer that has four other ones in there, too, which brings up a vital point:
