To create a recovery drive, you'll need an external usb drive formatted to fat32, with enough available storage space for all your recovery data. Learn about the recovery options in windows Find out how to reset your pc, go back to a previous version of windows, or use media to reinstall windows. On that website, you can select a version of windows and create installation media on ar a usb flash. If you want to perform a reinstall or clean install of windows 11 on a new or used pc, use this option to download the media creation tool to make a bootable usb or dvd. You can also create a system repair disc or recovery drive to boot from and restore the backup if your pc won’t start
This method is free, built into windows, and works well for most users. In the backup and restore control panel, click on create a system image under control panel home Wait while the system image wizard detects your external hard disk. Hello, i'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing an issue where the create recovery drive feature of windows 11 is not recognising a usb flash drive Here are some of my suggestions you can refer to: I created a windows system repair disk on an external usb dvd disk, using the control panel (selected backup and restore windows 7)