In this article, I will tell you how to create a recovery disk with the Windows 8 operating system. It may be useful for you in several cases: if you occur a failure and unstable computer, if your computer or laptop does not start at all if you need to go to the safe mode.

On a computer or laptop, Mouse over the mouse over the right upper corner and select "Search" on the side pop-up panel.

In the search field, enter the phrase "Recovery Disk".

On the left will show the search results. Click on the icon "Creating a recovery disk".

Now we need a disk or flash drive with a volume of no less than 256 MB. Insert the selected device into the computer.

Recovery disk is created using a wizard. In the next window, click "Next". If you bought a computer or laptop with a pre-installed Windows 8, then the device has a recovery section. In this case, the field "Copy the recovery section from the computer to the recovery disk" will be actively. If you wish, you can put a tick in it, then the files from this section will be copied to the disk or flash drive. Just keep in mind that you need more free space on the removable device. For example, a flash drive will need to take a minimum of 16 GB.

Select the flash drive connected to the computer. If you want to create a CD, then do not connect the USB flash drive, and insert the disk drive, then there will be an item below "Create instead of a system recovery disk on a CD or DVD disk". Click "Next".

The wizard will warn that all data from the device will be deleted. If important files are stored on the flash drive, it is better to interrupt the disk creating, and copy all the files to a safe place. Click "Create".

Wait until the wizard finishes the formatting process and copy all the necessary data to the USB flash drive.

This is completed on this process, and the recovery disk with the Windows 8 operating system is ready.

If you have any problems with the operation of the operating system, then using a recovery disk, you can restore the operating state of Windows 8. To do this, it will be necessary to change the prioritization of the boot in the BIOS to boot from the flash drive or disk, and then select the desired menu options.

About how to change the priority of downloading in the BIOS, I also wrote in the article Setup Windows 8. Follow the link and read more detailed information about this.

With the help of the recovery disk, you can also go to a safe mode. For many users, it will be very useful, since in Windows 8, it is not always possible to do it with the usual pressing F8 or SHIFT + F8.

If Windows 8 does not start on the computer at all, then you can create a recovery disc on a friend's computer, with the operating system installed by us. In this case, a disk or flash drive can also help from which you installed the operating system.

Or buying a new computer with the "eight" first thing you need to create a system recovery disk to be able to upload a computer and access the recovery utilities if something goes wrong.

Since the time, the process of creating such a disk has changed a bit, and along with optical carriers are now supported and USB drives.

To find the utility for, enter the keyword "Recovery" on the home screen and select the "Settings" filter. The desired option in the search results is displayed called "Create System Recovery Disk" (CREATE A RECOVERY DRIVE).

Windows 8 recovery disk tool (Recovery Media Creator) is a wizard operating in the desktop interface.

Click "Next". You will be prompted to connect a USB drive or select from the list of available disks. If you prefer to use an optical disk (CD-RW or recordable DVD), click the "Create System Recovery CD or DVD" link (CREATE A SYSTEM REPAIR DISK WITH A CD OR DVD, in Windows 7 it was the only available option). I will proceed from the fact that the USB drive is used, because it is in Windows 8 the main innovation.

Selecting a disc, click "Next". The wizard will warn that all data from the disk will be deleted during the formatting process. Click "Create" (Create). The wizard will prepare and format the disk, and then copies the utilities and other files required to start the recovery environment.

And ... Ready! If the computer does not start, you can download it from the created disk and call the recovery environment in which several useful tools are available.

Note that you can get to these tools and differently, and the recovery disk is rather useful for a black day. If you have a Windows 8 installation disk, you can also use it to start the recovery utility - just select "Repair System" on the "Install" (Repair Your Computer). And if Windows is still loading, the recovery utility can be found in the "Computer Settings | General | Additional startup options "(PC Settings | General | Advanced Startup).

Although everyone is clear that for stable PC operation, it is simply necessary to maintain its OS in a working and healthy state, sometimes the only way out is to restore Windows 8.1.

The recovery disc is a USB flash media containing all the tools required to repair the system. Usually it includes: Recovery tool when downloading, updating, resetting and restoring the system.

To create a recovery disk, open the control panel, and click the "Restore" section (the control panel in the view of large or small icons, in the view by category of this section there is no). The upper window of the opening window is just responsible for creating the recovery disk that we need. Click on it and go directly to creating a disk.

prompt. If you have a recovery-confined manufacturer on your computer, you can check box on copying the recovery section. True, it significantly increases the size of the recovery disk, and is suitable only for USB flash drives with a volume of at least 32 GB, but gives a valuable additional parameter for Windows 8.1 alarm salvation.

After creating a disc, you can run your computer from it and access the recovery parameters. However, do not forget that downloading from USB must be enabled in or UEFI firmware your system board.

Attention. If you use Windows RT for a tablet, for example, Microsoft Surface, you must create a backup image of the system, a recovery disk. Reinstall Windows RT, except from the recovery disk, it is impossible in a different way, so that if an accident occurred, you have one way out - to return the computer to the manufacturer to re-create the image that in our reality it is unrealistic. To create a recovery disk with the full way Windows RT system, you will need a USB flash drive only in 4 GB.

Backup and restore Windows 8.1.

Since the time of Windows XP, if there are problems with the OS, it was considered an ordinary thing to completely reinstall the operating system and all software. Now there are several other ways to ensure your installed copy of Windows and restore it in the event of a crisis.

Note. In Windows 8, the tool for backing up the full image image is included, Windows 7 has parameters to restore files. In Windows 8.1, this feature has been removed. Alternative to these features in Windows 8.1 has become its own recovery option.

Windows 8.1 repair using the quick recovery option.

In Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced a new way to create a backup image, which is so easy to use that any users can use it. This new recovery option creates a backup copy of the operating system, which can be easily run from the computer parameters or inserting the recovery disk from the OS start settings.

There is one important difference between the old backup image of the system and the new recovery option. Even by creating your custom recovery image, which in the case of which will restore all installed desktop programs, you cannot save their settings. This means that software, such as Microsoft Outlook, will be restored, but your email accounts will have to configure again. Similarly, with all other desktop applications.

However, most users can not worry, Windows 8.1 synchronizes most of their parameters, including for desktop applications, and the same Microsoft Office 2013 can synchronize its settings between different computers.

Get access to the recovery option is the easiest way in the computer parameters by selecting there update and restore, and then in the left navigation bar by pressing the recovery.

The restore option is the first option at the top of the screen, by the way, there is an explanation of what will be done. When you are ready to restore your computer, click Start. The process is fully automated.

Windows 8.1 will explain to you what will be done during the recovery process and will ask you to confirm this operation. The click on the OK button will begin the action itself, which can take from 15 to 60 minutes, which direct depends on your created user recovery image.

You can restore your computer while running Windows 8.1. For this there are several ways:

1. If your computer does not start three times, the repair process starts when it is loaded. If the computer fails to repair, it offers additional features, including recovery.
2. Launching a computer recovery computer; Please note that you may need access to download parameters. You need to download from the USB flash drive.
3. Starting a computer with installation DVD Windows 8.1 DVD. On the settings screen, instead of the system repair options, click the Restore Computer link.

Creating a custom recovery image in Windows 8.1.

As mentioned above, you can create a custom recovery image. You may need to do this because by default, this feature will update your copy of Windows 8.1, saving files and applications intact, but at the same time will destroy all desktop applications.

Creating a user recovery image will make a computer snapshot complete with all desktop software.

Note. Remember that when recovery from the user recovery image, all desktop settings are reset, so you have to configure again, however, if their parameters are not automatically synchronized between computers.

To create a custom recovery image, you must perform the following steps:

1. Click Win + X.By opening this administration menu.
2. Select and run the command prompt (administrator).
3. Enter rECIMG -CREATEIMAGE C: \\ FOLDERWhere C: \\ Folder Place where you want to save a backup. This place can also be on another section of the hard disk or on another drive. You can add additional fault tolerance to the creation of a recovery.

After you bought a new computer with a fixed version or installed the operating system to your old computer, you must necessarily create Windows 8 recovery disk. During an unforeseen system failure (and in Windows 8, as in any other system, it may happen) the restoration of the Windows 8 system will allow you to start your computer again and get full access to programs. In this article, we will consider the process of creating a Windows 8 recovery disk.

In order to create a Windows 8 recovery disk, we need a removable media. The CD / DVD-R (W) or ordinary flash drive is perfectly suitable. First, we need to find a utility for creating a new system recovery disk. Navigate to the initial screen and enter the keyword "recovery" in the search string. The option we need will be submitted in the search results as "Create A Recovery DRIVE" ("Create a system recovery disk"). After the operating system found the utility, click on it and wait for a couple of seconds.

Windows 8 Recovery Program

In the Windows 8 operating system, the recovery utility is a wizard that possesses the desktop interface.

In the English word dialog box, it is described that you can use the utility to restore Windows 8 disk even in cases where the computer itself cannot turn on; Having created a new disk to restore the system, the OS will try to copy the important system data to the removable medium in order to run through them in the future.

Press the "Next" button ("Next"). After clicking, you will go to the next dialog box, where Windows 8 will offer you to connect either a USB drive, or select one of the available disks from the list. If you are more convenient to burn system files to an optical disk (CD-RW recorded by DVD), do not forget to click on the "Create A System Repair Disk WITH A CD OR DVD" option ("Create a Windows 8 system recovery disk on a CD or DVD disk") . An interesting nuance: On the Windows 7 operating system, only the ability to create a recovery disk through optical rewritable discs is supported. In the new Windows 8, Windows 8 boot recovery is possible even from a USB drive. This is the main thing, and what is important is a useful innovation in the continuation of the Windows family.

After you have chosen the disk, you need to click the "Next" button. The wizard just in case will warn you that in the formatting process all data from the selected disk will be deleted, so if you finally do not know whether the disk selected earlier, you still have the ability to cancel your actions. So, the disc is finally selected. Boldly press the "Create" button ("Create"). First, the master will be prepared and formatted disk (approximately 2-10 minutes, depending on the equipment installed on the computer). A little later, the utility will copy other utilities and system files that are necessary to successfully launch the recovery environment.

Do not turn off the computer while copying system files! If you have a laptop, we do not recommend using a utility to create a system recovery disk with a battery charge lower than 20%. The copying process itself does not have the same temporary segment for all computers. It all depends on the RAM of your computer. Remember: during recovery tested and only system files are being restored. Software installed programs and personal recovery wizard are not affected. Therefore, if the operating system suddenly damages, the Windows 8 boot restore is applicable only for system files, ignoring personal data (saved passwords, cache, the history of visiting pages in the browser and so on).

That's all, the computer recorded all the important system data on the removable media. Now, when suddenly the system refuses to start, you can easily run it, after inserting the media to the computer / laptop and caused the recovery environment in which the high-speed useful toolkit is implemented.

Hello everyone, today I want to tell you how it is created Disk recovery Windows 8.1, earlier I already talked about, how I created a Windows 10 recovery disk, but one of the readers has been tormented twice how to do it for 8.1, I decided to write it all the same to deal with this and refresh it yourself in memory. All questions on this article, waiting in the comments.

Let me remind you. Such rescue disks will help you for example with a bootloader, read more detail as a note how to restore Windows 10 bootloader. And so start.

Making Windows 8.1 Recovery disk

As a disk you can use the following media

• portable Hard Drive
• Flash drive

Click on the Start menu by right click and in the window that opens, select the control panel

You will find a wizard that will create a recovery disk, press further

wizard for creating a recovery disk, about scans you have a flash drive if it is detected, it will appear in the list available.

Formatting will begin, the process is quite fast.

After a couple of seconds, the recovery disk will be ready, more precisely, the flash drive :). Now if you have a downloader problem or you need to restore the system, then you can boot from this flash drive, and do this process.