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While investigating how to make a Win10 USB recovery drive I read the following at pcworld.com (magazine):
PC World Mag says Plug in an empty flash drive with a capacity of 4GB or more. Note that Microsoft says you'll need a USB drive that is "at least 4GB" but in our experience you'll need at least an 8GB drive, and possibly even a 16GB drive, and they are so cheap these days it doesn't hurt to err on the side of caution anyway
What about when you are buying these solely for saving as recovery drives and you have 4 people in your family?
Why not 32GB, Microsoft? Why not just force us to mirror our drives completely? Why not?! It's just money, Microsoft.
And you got plenty. 
This completes my rant...for the moment.
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Why recover win 10? dust off your old win 7 recovery disk and you're way ahead.
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That is an upgrade that I would prefer.
At work they got me a new laptop with W10 on it. I also had an older desktop machine with W7 on it. I prefer to work with W7 by a large, large margin so I let the laptop monitor my e-mail for me and that's about it until I have to travel somewhere which is moderately frequent.
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Depending on the manufacturer of your computer you can ask them to send you a recovery USB.
I own a Lenovo laptop and I did it... in less than 4 days I received for free a recovery USB which I used to install Windows 10 with all the drivers and so...
PS: This solution allows you to fresh install W10, not to back up your data or similar.
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Joan M wrote: I own a Lenovo laptop and I did it... in less than 4 days I received for free a recovery USB
Wow!
Very interesting. Never would've known laptop manufacturer would do that.
I have a Toshiba and other family members have HPs.
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raddevus wrote: PC World Mag says
raddevus wrote: they are so cheap these days
raddevus wrote: Why not?! It's just money, Microsoft.
Looks like you're yelling at the wrong person. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I know. But Microsoft has deep pockets so I go after them like everyone else.
Oh, and also I'm complaining at them for not telling me the exact size I should buy.
At lunch, I picked up 3 16GB for $17.98. Not too bad, I guess.
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There ya go. A good while ago I bought a dozen such thumbdrives (16GB each), so I'm done with this dilemma once and for all. I've been using them to make bootable versions of everything from Windows 7/2008 R2 onward, and a few Linux distributions.
And since they're rewritable, every time there's an updated ISO (Win10 1607 vs 1703 for example), I just blow away the older version and replace it so I always have the latest and greatest ready to go.
Oh, and if you don't already have it: Rufus is a must.
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I suppose Microsoft could have said nothing, and then the first person that tried to make such a recovery drive with only 8GB capacity, and ran out of room, would be ranting about not being notified.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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David Crow wrote: Microsoft could have said nothing, and then the first person that tried to make such a recovery drive with only 8GB capacity, and ran out of room, would be ranting about not being notified
I agree with you and I see what you mean.
This is yet another thing they've taken from us. One less thing I can gripe about. 
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raddevus wrote: While investigating how to make a Win10 USB recovery drive
Depending on your PC brand, you will not have use of it.
Example: I own a HP, and as much as I hate them as a brand, they have a great recovery tool embedded. From it (I am talking about a program that starts during PC bootup, not a windows program), you can backup data, start in safe mode, create another partition, re-install Windows10 afresh, etc...
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You are correct and make a great point. However, in the case of all of my family's PCs, we bought the least expensive laptops we could find, immediately cloned the HDDs, copied them to smaller (because of cost) SSDs and replaced.
When we did the clone to SSD work, the new drives are so much smaller (500 GB to 120GB and 1TB to 500GB) that the recovery drives were lost since they wouldn't exactly fit. That's not a great explanation but the free cloning software thought the other partitions (recover) wouldn't fit so we just left them behind. That's what has driven me to get the new USBs.
Thanks for chiming in. 
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A thing of rare beauty...
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still hard to believe all of the stuff is for real.
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It's under the "fap" folder? 
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When I was a kid, I saved some money for a few months to buy a telescope (it was the time when my class was being taught about Galileo and Copernicus). I used to look at the moon, every full moon. Not much but it was wonderful. I still dream about buying a big telescope for my house. 
modified 4-Oct-17 5:17am.
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GKP1992 wrote: Not much but it was wonderful. I still dream about buying a big telescope for my house
There is a house at Point Dume in Malibu that has an observatory attached. Drool...
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Is a dry spell Harry Potter's cure for a hangover?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If my cocktail glass is dry, does that make me sober?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Is a 'hangover' ... when your computer comes unexpectedly to a state in which no further operations can be carried out, then suddenly begins to work normally again? 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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DeathByChocolate wrote: Is a 'hangover' ... when your computer comes unexpectedly to a state in which no further operations can be carried out, then suddenly begins to work normally again?
What has bought you ou of the woodwork Alli?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I saw the tag 'Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt', interesting name I thought ... had to be you! 
Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: What has bought you ou of the woodwork Alli?
I got a couple of day passes, I'll be back in the straight jacket next week.  I see there are still a few of the regulars still here.
Hope you are well. Still drinking I trust, you wouldn't want to let the Aussie side down. Work alright? Family OK?
I'm eating less chocolate and running more ... when I hear it put it like that, I think I must be mad! Other than that, I'm still coding, but mostly embedded now.
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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DeathByChocolate wrote: I saw the tag 'Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt', interesting name I thought ... had to be you!
Who else could be so classy?
DeathByChocolate wrote:
I got a couple of day passes, I'll be back in the straight jacket next week. I see there are still a few of the regulars still here.
Hope you are well. Still drinking I trust, you wouldn't want to let the Aussie side down. Work alright? Family OK?
Still drinking though the diet has had o change somewhat. Diabetes f***ing up and I'm down from 88kg to 82kg. Never been above 98kg and at 188cm it was never fat let alone obese. Faarrrkkkk you diabetes.
Work is work, not enough of it but that happens when you work for yourself. Kids are soon 21 and 18, youngest sits her HSC in 2-3 weeks.
DeathByChocolate wrote: I'm eating less chocolate and running more ... when I hear it put it like that, I think I must be mad! Other than that, I'm still coding, but mostly embedded now.
Beer is the answer you seek.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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