Consider the following scenario:
- You have Windows 8 installed on a PC.
- A USB flash drive is attached to the PC to be used as a recovery drive.
- You launch the Recovery applet from the Control Panel and choose Create a recovery drive. You can also launch recoverydrive.exe from an Administrative command prompt.
- On the next screen, you enable Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive option. On some machines, this option may already be enabled or may be grayed out. This problem will not occur if the option is grayed out because it is not enabled.
- The progress bar indicator shows that the recovery drive process is ongoing.
In this scenario, the recovery drive process may not complete. The progress bar indicator continues to be animated but the process does not complete. There is no error or warning message shown.
- You have Windows 8 installed on a PC.
- A USB flash drive is attached to the PC to be used as a recovery drive.
- You launch the Recovery applet from the Control Panel and choose Create a recovery drive. You can also launch recoverydrive.exe from an Administrative command prompt.
- On the next screen, you enable Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive option. On some machines, this option may already be enabled or may be grayed out. This problem will not occur if the option is grayed out because it is not enabled.
- The progress bar indicator shows that the recovery drive process is ongoing.
In this scenario, the recovery drive process may not complete. The progress bar indicator continues to be animated but the process does not complete. There is no error or warning message shown.