For instance, I renamed my drive to OS Drive. In the File Explorer, rename the C Drive to something you can easily recognize. This is not necessary but makes your life easier when using the command prompt. This makes it sure that when you restore your system using the recovery partition, you will have all your software ready to use.Ĥ. Make sure that you’ve installed all the Windows updates and software that you use regularly. To create a partition, you can use the built-in disk management tool or third-party software like EaseUS Partition Manager.ģ. You should know how to create a partition. For instance, if I’m using Windows 10 v1809, the installation media should also be of v1809.Ģ. Make sure that the installed Windows 10 version and downloaded Windows 10 ISO version is the same. If you don’t have the installation media, you can easily create a Windows 10 USB drive yourself. We are going to use the windows 10 installation drive to extract the OS image which can then be used to create a recovery image.

Keep your Windows 10 installation media ready.

Windows 10 2 recovery partitions