How To Create a Windows 8.1.1 Recovery Drive:
These steps will create a bootable USB flash drive containing utilities for recovering the image made by the Windows "System Image Backup" feature found in Control Panel.
Open the Charms bar and select Search.
In the search field, type: recovery
From the list of results displayed, select Create a recovery drive.
The Recovery Drive wizard opens on the desktop. If the option to Copy the recovery partition is grayed out, that just means you dont have one.
If you have a recovery partition, you can copy it over to the flash drive (if it's big enough). If you only want the utilities for restoring the "System Image Backup," then uncheck that option.
Next, select the flash drive you want to use.
Click the Create button.
When its done, click Finish.
NOTE: To use this feature to restore your system, you must be able to boot to a flash drive.
This process will place on the USB flash drive the same utilities that Windows 8 placed on the recovery CD/DVD. Later versions of Windows 8 (8.1 and 8.1.1) removed the option to create a bootable recovery CD/DVD, replacing it with this USB flash drive option.
Also, this process places on the flash drive other options, such as option to display "advanced boot options" (includes Safe Mode) that pressing F8 key provided in previous versions of Windows. Use this process if the F8 key doesn't work for you in Windows 8.
This recovery flash drive contains the same utilities as that provided when you recover your backup from within Windows, if you can still boot into Windows. To preview the options you get, open the charms bar. Then click the charms in the following order (order may vary slightly with different versions of Windows 8):
Settings > Change PC settings > Update and recovery > Advanced startup > Restart Now. After restarting, look around and click on, among other things, > Troubleshoot > Startup Settings.
Now you see listed the "advanced boot options" that will be made available, including "Enable Safe Mode." Click on Restart to actually get the advanced boot options. Notice the on-screen instructions.
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