If you want to reinstall Windows without losing data, please try the following methods.Please backup your important files in advance, whether it is pictures, documents, audios, or videos, otherwise your data will go forever. Restoring from Recovery from a drive option is a process to clean install Windows 10, so it will remove all your files, even the entire disk.And these steps also applies to Windows 11. Please prepare a USB drive with 16GB at least, otherwise this operation may fail because of insufficient disk space and throw you an error message, saying, "we can't create the recovery drive".
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Here you will create a recovery drive in Windows 10 with built-in tool - Recovery Drive, and then learn how to use recovery drive in Windows 10 to completely reinstall Winodws 10. Method 1: Recover Windows 10/11 from a recovery drive Four methods are below, please check one of them and start your restoration. Also, if your computer has a serious error or you want to keep all your personal files and programs, you could try free backup software AOMEI Backupper Standard. Well then, how to use recovery drive in Windows 10/11 to get computer back? You could use recovery drive or installation disc to boot computer and then restore it using Windows 10/11 recovery tools. But if you want to install Windows 10/11 from USB, you can choose to download installation media tool from Microsoft and create Windows 10/11 recovery USB yourself. But the one comes along with your computer is a CD/DVD disc. In addition, you still can use an installation disk as a repair disk. Also, you cannot use a Windows 8 32-bit recovery drive to troubleshoot Windows 8 64-bit. That’s to say, you cannot use a Windows 8 32-bit recovery drive to repair Windows 10 32-bit. In Windows, the recovery USB created by buillt-in tool cannot be used on different version of computer. Recovery USB (a USB version of system repair disc in Windows) contains several tools that can be used to troubleshoot the unbootable computer or restore your computer to factory settings.