New computer and I’m making a recovery disc. Actually I’m making a recovery flash drive (which is what the program specified). I bought a new flash drive in the size they recommended (16gig).
I started around eleven. There’s a little task bar and it took about 20-30 minutes to reach almost to the end of the task bar. Then when it was about 98% done, it stopped advancing. It’s now over four hours and it still hasn’t finished.
How long does making a recovery disc normally take?
Need more info. Recovery for which OS? Is it an official product and by whom? (Don’t think MS, but maybe Dell, HP etc.?) Can you also burn a literal disk on DVD? Also, is it 100% necessary? In other words, some brands already have a recovery partition on the HD which might provide the same service.
But yes, it does sound like something went wrong.
It’s Windows 8 on a Gateway NE laptop. The recovery program is part of the Gateway suite. Creating the recovery drive was their recommendation and I followed the directions step by step.
After several more hours of the program doing nothing, I decided to stop it and hit the cancel button. It then went into several hours of cancelling the program. I finally just pulled the flash drive and shut down the laptop.
a condition known as ‘lost in space’. forcing a power down is the only resort.
Maybe you have to update the computers bios and/or the software that makes the backup, before the 'make recovery ’ works. You could call the company to ask them if there is a known problem with the make recovery of your model..
The answer will depend on your machine speed, type, and what’s installed, but as a single reference point – on a Surface Pro the process took me about 90 minutes. Four hours wouldn’t be out of the question on an older machine, but it would have to be a fairly extreme outlier.
This is a new laptop and I was making a recovery drive before installing anything on it.
Just an update. After several attempts, I figured out what the main problem was.
The default settings on Windows 8 shut your computer off after ten minutes without activity. It takes longer than ten minutes to make a recovery disc. Windows 8 doesn’t recognize making a recovery disc as activity. You do the math.
Windows 8 advises you to make a recovery disc first thing when you get a new computer. It doesn’t tell you that you can’t make a recovery disc until you change Window 8’s default settings.
Sometimes you have to wonder if Microsoft is really this incompetent or if they do things like this deliberately.