How to make a recovery usb without the option?

Welcome to the forum. If you create a image that's all you need. Once your in 10 there is an option to recover back to 7 for 30 days and you have all your files in the image. Just goto media creation tool hit upgrade and all files will be there after upgrade

billmcct said:

You need to make an image of the entire hard drive. (All partitions) If something goes wrong then you can restore the whole drive.
Please don't use windows to make the image, use any of the free softwares out there such as "Aomei Backuper" and please read the options and set it to "VALIDATE" the image. Takes longer but you will know the image is good. Please "DO NOT USE THE COMPUTER WHILE THE IMAGE IS BEING PROCESSED" or the validation "WILL" fail.
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Just click the "Download Freeware" link.

thanks i will be doing that but i need to know that if the external hard drive with the system image has others files with the system image would it still work?
also lets say i have backed up a system image on my external hard drive with freeware and during the upgrade something happened and no windows work how would i restore my system image? also i because my computer is apparently oem/hp i have the certificate files and product key ready but would i need to use them if i do the restore system image?

thanks again for your help im just new to this and by doing system image i wouldnt need to do a windows 7 recovery disk/usb and keep it at a side right?

samuria said:

Welcome to the forum. If you create a image that's all you need. Once your in 10 there is an option to recover back to 7 for 30 days and you have all your files in the image. Just goto media creation tool hit upgrade and all files will be there after upgrade

thanks a lot sir

SIW2 said:

You can create boot media with the imaging program ( aomei). It can create bootable iso image or bootable usb. You can boot that and restore an image you have stored on a disk .




The activation is included in the image. Restore the image back to the same machine and it will still be activated.



Yes. The image file is just a file. You can store it on a disk that has other files and folders on it.

Depending what volumes you choose to include in the image file, it can be quite big. Do you have a large enough disk to store it on?

yes my system image will be about 340gb and i have 730 free on my external hard drive

thanks i will make a system image from freeware on my external hard drive
and on a usb ill create the bootable medie

and just incase i have found a windows 7 iso and i will use the windows usb/dvd program to burn it on a different usb if aomei fails

i think this is a pretty much a good fail proof way am i right? though i do hope i dont have to go through any of those and windows 10 will install just fine

this is the site im going to get the windows 7 iso from Windows 7 Home Premium Full Version Free Download ISO [32-64Bit] - Softlay
i hope it a genuine version not cracked or played with

thank you i will be doing that