To avoid problems during the boot of our hard drive and not to encounter information leaks, it is important to create a recovery disk
We have already seen how to create a restore point on computers with Windows 10, to avoid information leaks as a result of bugs or problems with documents and programs. To be on the safe side, however, we can create a restore disk on USB or external CDs, to be used in case of PC hard drive problems.
The first thing to know, regardless of whether we’ll create a restore disk on USB sticks or external CD, is that a restore disk is a system that “reasons” in bits. That’s why if you create a recovery drive in a 64-bit version of Windows 10, you can’t use the same drive to boot and troubleshoot in a 32-bit version of Windows 10. And vice versa. Creating a recovery disk is not the easiest task, but it’s not too complicated either.
How to create a rescue disk
First, after inserting the external disk or USB stick, from our Windows computer click on the Start button, the one that is located in the lower left corner of our desktop and is marked by the window symbol. From the list of applications that will appear choose the Backup and Restore item. Otherwise we can get to the same section by going to Control Panel, then to System and Maintenance and finally to Backup and Restore. Once we get to this point we have to click on the section called Create a recovery disk. The system will automatically start the process and all we have to do is follow the instructions. During this operation it is possible that the computer will ask us for our Windows password to authorize the creation of the recovery disk.
How to use a recovery disk
Once we have created the recovery CD or the USB recovery drive we just have to insert them into our PC to be able to use them. Once this is done we restart the computer. During the reboot we have to start (via start menu) the computer from the system restore disk. If your computer is not configured to boot from a CD or DVD, see your computer’s documentation. In this case you may need to change the BIOS settings of your computer. Once you enter the boot menu, select the drive where you created the restore point and then click Next. And that’s it.