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Recovery Drive: Repair Your Windows 10 PC

If you switched on your PC one day and Windows didn’t start, would you know what to do? Ideally you’d insert a Windows 10 installation DVD to use its recovery tools, but if you upgraded to Windows 10 rather than buying it, you probably don’t have one of those. In that case, what you need is a ‘recovery drive’ that does an equivalent job – but you need to create it before you have problems! Read on to learn how to create this recovery drive and how to use it to get your PC working again if disaster does strike.

Category: Hardware, Issues, Troubleshooting
Issue: 2020 Issue 5 May
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10
Article Reference: R125