The utility can only write to a CD/DVD, so extra steps have to be performed to create an USB stick:
- Use the utility to Create a system repair disc and burn it to a CD/DVD
- Prepare an USB stick to be bootable:
- Insert the USB stick, and let Windows discover the removable disk
- Open an Elevated Command Prompt.
- Launch the command line disk partitioning utility with this command:
diskpart
- List the available disks on the computer:
list disk
- Choose the removable USB disk ("?" should be the disk number from the list):
select disk ?
- Clean all existing partitions:
clean
- Create new partition:
create partition primary
- Mark partition as active:
active
- Format new partition:
format fs=fat32
- Copy the files from the burned CD/DVD to the now prepared USB stick
Related Creating a Recovery Disk on an USB stick
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**IMPORTANT**
Between steps 2-2 and 2-3, launch DISKPART at the command prompt.
Thank you for the correction, have now updated the article.
Now it's very easy to create a flash drive for Windows recovery. But recovering deleted files is much more difficult. You can restore them using Uneraser, but this is a long process.