How to Make a Factory Recovery Partition in Windows 11/10/8/7
Why need to make a recovery partition?
When your computer breaks down, you may be suggested to reinstall the Windows. This operation only gives you a brand new computer with preinstalled programs. You still need to spend time in reinstalling programs and settings you need. It’s troublesome and time-consuming.
In fact, you can choose to make a factory recovery partition in advance, which will contain a copy of your operating system and boot related files. It’s much easier to operate and saves you a lot of time. And it’s will retain your system as well as all the programs and settings installed on the computer.
What kind of backup software should you use?
For Windows 7/8/10/11 users, you can use Backup and Restore, which help you to backup system. However, this image is not bootable. You still need to create a bootable media to boot your computer.
Speaking of bootable recovery partition, you can take advantage of Recovery Drive in Windows 8/8.1/10/11. You just need to connect the recovery drive and set boot priority for it in the BIOS, then you can go to main page to restore your computer.
In addition, many computer manufacturers offer you a OneKey recovery software. It can also help you protect your system and it’s bootable. However, it can only be used to the specified computer. For example, you can only use Lenovo OneKey Recovery on the Lenovo computers. Sometimes, you will encounter the Lenovo F11 not working and other trouble.
For a beginner, these operations are still too complicated. When you encounter problems in this process, you will be at a loss. Thus, you’d better turn to a third-party backup software like Qiling Disk Master, which is easy to use. And it will add a boot menu in the system automatically after you create a recovery partition in Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7.
How to create a recovery partition easily with Qiling Disk Master
Qiling Disk Master is a safe and easy-to-use system recovery partition maker. It is designed to back up and restore your system, supporting:
- All Windows PC operating systems, including Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP (all editions, 32 bit and 64 bit).
- Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 (including R2), WHS 2011, SBS 2003, 2008, 2011.
- Computers of different brands, including HP, Lenovo, Asus, Dell, etc.
If you want to create a factory recovery partition, you need to backup the system at the first time you get the computer. Also, you can create a system backup later and it will restore to the state you backup. Download its demo program to have a try.
Step 1. Download, install and launch Qiling Disk Master. And then choose "OneKey System Backup".
Step 2. System backup image file can be saved to any other location, such as an internal secondary disk, an external hard drive, or a removable USB flash drive, etc.
Step 3. Wait patiently until the process is over. The process will take some minutes depending how much data on your system. Then, a pop-up window will appear on the screen and you just need to click "OK" -> "Finish".
Tips:
- If you not only want to backup your system but your entire hard disk, specified partition, or individual files and folders, you can use the complete backup software - Qiling Disk Master. It supports backing up to external hard disk, USB flash drive, CD/DVD, shared Network or NAS. Then enable Qiling Backuper recovery environment in Windows boot options menu. After that, you could restore data easily under Qiling Disk Master recovery environment.
How to recover system from boot failure
When your computer fails to boot because of system crash or operating system not found error, you can use the factory image you created to return things to normal. But the way of system recovery may vary considerably according to the disk partition styles of your system.
- For most of computers whose system disk style is MBR, please press "F11" (default) or "A" on keyboard during the process of system startup. After that, your computer will be booted into Windows PE recovery environment.
- For computers whose system disk style is GPT (EFI/UEFI boot), please choose "Qiling Disk Master" in the Windows boot menu. After a reboot, your computer will be booted into Windows PE recovery environment.
Step 1. After Windows PE recovery environment starts, to restore your system when your computer can boot, just select "Browse for Recovery".
Step 2. Click "Browse" to find the system backup image file. Click "OK" to continue.
Here are two choices for you to restore your system. You can follow the steps of restoring system by using the image files in Qiling Disk Master Partition, because both ways of restoration are basically the same, except that the location of the image file is different.
Step 3. Select the connected target drive as the destination to restore the disk image, and click Next.
Step 4. Confirm the operation and click Proceed to execute the disk migration.
Step 5. Now, you just need to wait patiently until the process is over. After all operations are completed, click "Finish".
Final words
To make Lenovo/ HP/ Dell recovery partition bootable, you can consider Qiling Disk Master. It gives you two options, including backup system to Qiling Disk Master Partition, backup system to other location. If the drive has enough space, it’s recommended to use the first option, because it does not need extra storage device.
If you still do not create a recovery partition for Windows 7/8/10/11, you can download Qiling Disk Master and try it by yourself.
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