Creating Windows Recovery Image

Created by Michael Lister, Modified on Tue, 14 Jan at 1:41 PM by Michael Lister

Creating Partition for Recovery Image to be Installed


1. Open Disk Management


2. Table of partitions for each disk will be displayed along the bottom of the screen
Right click a partition you can shrink, this will be the right most partition on the disk

Ideally this will be the C partition, DO NOT shrink any system partitions


Select Shrink Volume...

3. Most system images seem to be 25 - 35GB
Shrink the volume by 40,960MB (40GB)


4. A new partition will display called Unallocated

Right click this and select New Simple Volume...


5. Assign a letter to this partition


6. Ensure File System for the partition is NTFS


7. Name the partition - Recovery Image




Enabling Drives for System Image


Before we take an image of the system we need to enable recovery for the drives we want to take an image of


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