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Inspiron 3670, can't create recovery disk
Brand new Inspiron 3670, 8 GB memory, 1TB hard drive, Windows 10 Tried to create recovery disk but keeps erroring out. Using SanDisk Cruzer Gluide elevate, 16GB. Formatted it to NTFS as I saw suggested someplace. Ran it and it errored out. There are some files on the drive but the weird thing is if I go to properties of that drive now, it shows the file system is a FAT32. I've seen a system file corruption can cause this, but I've only had this for 5 days. The only thing I've downloaded is MS Office Student/Home. Any ideas?
Plato1960
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February 10th, 2019 10:00
You can purchase a 32 gb usb 2.0 flash drive @ local walmart for like $12.
When I first read ur post my first guess was the 16 gb may not be large enough. I created mine two months ago on a 32 gb drive. Took 2 hours but its done.
RoHe
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February 10th, 2019 13:00
That's what I meant. 16 GB could be too small for the recovery image. You need an 8 GB stick just to create a bootable Win 10 USB, without anything else that Dell may have added to their recovery image...
JOcean
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February 9th, 2019 16:00
Even though you formatted the USB in NTFS, the recovery drive procedure formats the drive in FAT 32. Let the recovery process format the drive (it will do it anyway). Try the following page suggestions. What is the error you see when the procedure fails?
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3016562/computers/when-you-cant-create-the-windows-10-recovery-drive-try-these-three-fixes.html
janet119
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February 9th, 2019 17:00
RoHe
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February 9th, 2019 18:00
Try a different USB stick...?
janet119
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February 10th, 2019 05:00
This was a new stick right out of the package. I’ve seen where some people had to use a larger size than what was actually suggested. This was the cheapest I could find maybe I got what I paid for. Any suggestions as to what I should buy?
speedstep
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February 12th, 2019 04:00
Sandisk can be faked so that although it says its a 16 gig drive to the system its actually a 1 gig or 2 gig or 4 gig device with firmware re written to show fake size. If it seems too good to be true it probably is.
The other GOTCHA is that you must use USB 2.0 port to create and to install. USB 3.1 ports will have "issues"
See here: http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/find-a-retailer
Cruzer Blade USB 2.0 Flash Drive by SanDisk:
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Blade-Flash-SDCZ50/dp/B00652C690/
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RoHe
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February 12th, 2019 11:00
:Yes: :Yes:
Tesla1856
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February 12th, 2019 13:00
Same here ... on a Dell Windows-10 machine I was working on the other day.
Files written looks to be about 18gb now. They need to fix that message.
speedstep
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February 14th, 2019 07:00
The issue has existed for a long time.
4 gig flash drives are 3.5
8 gig flash drives are 7 gigs
16 gig flash drives are 14 gigs
32 gig flash drives are 29 gigs
Because a gig 1,000,000 is not a gig 1048576.
Beyond 32 gigs does not work because SDXC 64 gig and 128 gig are not fat32 but rather are EXFAT.