Create a Recovery Drive or System Repair Disc in Windows 8 and 8.1- Raminfotech

Create a Recovery Drive or System Repair Disc in Windows 8 and 8.1

By Margus Saluste, www.winhelp.us. Last modified: 2015-03-10.

How to create a Recovery Drive (USB) or a System Repair Disc (CD/DVD) in Windows 8 and 8.1

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Windows 8 and 8.1 allow creating a bootable Recovery Drive - USB disk that boots right into Recovery Environment (aka Limited Diagnostic Mode), allowing to repair startup, file system and other problems, running System Restore and Refreshing or Resetting your PC.
The drive or media cannot be used to install Windows. It is very similar to Windows 7's System Repair Disc.
Recovery Drive (the USB version) or System Repair Disc (the CD/DVD version, only available in Windows 8) is meant for those who do not have a bootable Windows 8/8.1 DVD - this is a common case as there is no DVD bundled with computers that have Windows 8 or 8.1 preinstalled (the OEM versions of Windows).
It is strongly recommended to create the drive or disc before getting into trouble - if you cannot start Windows 8 or 8.1, you might be out of luck in repairing your PC.
Please bear in mind that a 32-bit (x86) Recovery Drive can only be used to fix 32-bit Windows 8/8.1 editions and a 64-bit (x64) Recovery Drive works with 64-bit Windows 8/8.1 editions only.
A good thing is that you can repair any edition of Windows 8/8.1 with this disc, as long as it is meant for the same hardware architecture (32-bit or 64-bit).
And last, but not least - do not try to use Windows 8.1 Recovery Drive for repairing Windows 8, and vice versa!
Remember that you cannot use Refresh or Reset Your PC features if Windows is installed on a drive with GPT (not MBR) partition table until you force "UEFI only" boot setting in BIOS/EFI. Windows 8 and 8.1 will not detect GPT partition alignment correctly if BIOS booting is enabled.

Requirements for Windows 8/8.1 Recovery Drive or System Repair Disc

First, make sure you have a blank CD/DVD (only in Windows 8) or a USB drive with at least 256 MB (megabytes) of total disk space. Many OEM computers have heavily customized recovery partitions that might require up to 32 gigabytes of disk space on Recovery Drive.
CD or DVD in Windows 8 must really mean blank, because the program is not capable of overwriting rewritable media. You can blank a CD or DVD by opening Computer (keyboard shortcut Windows Key+E), right-clicking a CD/DVD writer in the list and selecting Erase this disc.
USB drive can be a simple pen drive (stick) or a USB hard drive. Please note that this drive will be formatted and you will lose all files on it. Do make a backup copy of your important files first!
After creating the Recovery Drive, you must test that your PC is actually able to boot from it. Some older USB sticks do not support booting at all. Also, remember to check your computer's boot order to verify that booting from USB devices is enabled and listed before hard drive booting.
If your computer has both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 or newer ports, connect Recovery Drive to an older USB 2.0 port - this resolves many boot problems.

Creating a bootable USB Recovery Drive

To create the drive, open Settings Search with keyboard shortcut Windows key+W and type "recovery" into Search box. Click Create a recovery drive.

As expected, User Account Control pops up. Click Yes to verify that you know what you're doing.

Create a recovery drive window opens. First, tick the Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive check box. Then connect a USB drive, wait about 10 seconds and click Next.

If you cannot enable the Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive option while creating a Recovery Drive in Windows 8 or 8.1, you need to copy Windows install.wim file on a hard drive or SSD. Please note that this will raise Recovery Drive space requirements from the default 256 megabytes to about 4 gigabytes.

In case Recovery Drive creation completely fails with the "We can't create a recovery drive on this PC. Some required files are missing." error, the winre.wim file or System Reserved partition is missing. See the Restore Windows RE in Windows tutorial on how to resolve this problem.

Click the correct drive letter in the Select the USB flash drive window. Then click Next.

Windows will then warn you that all contents of the selected drive will be deleted. To continue, click Create.

The drive formatting and file copying process might take several minutes, depending on the speed of your USB drive. After the drive is ready, click Finish.

Now test that your device is really able to boot from the Recovery Drive: some older USB drives do not support booting. If this is the case, create Recovery Drive on a newer stick and re-test.
If your computer has both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 or newer ports, connect Recovery Drive to an older USB 2.0 port - this resolves many boot problems.

Creating a bootable CD or DVD System Repair Disc in Windows 8

If you prefer to create a bootable CD or DVD System Repair Disc (possible in Windows 8 only), open Settings Search with keyboard shortcut Windows Key+W, type recovery and click Windows 7 File Recovery (yes, that actually is named Windows 7 File Recovery).
If you cannot find the item, open Command Prompt (use Windows Key+X shortcut), type sdclt.exe and press Enter key to launch the program.

In the left side of Windows 7 File Recovery window, click Create a system repair disc.

Create a system repair disc window opens. Select the correct drive and click Create disc.

If you did not insert a CD or DVD, you will see the "System repair disc could not be created, There is no media in the device (0xC0AA0202)" error dialog. Click OK, insert a blank writable disc and the process will automatically start.

In case the inserted CD or DVD is not blank, you will see the following error dialog. Click OK. Then open Windows Explorer (keyboard shortcut Windows Key+E).

Right-click your CD or DVD writer and select Erase this disc.

In the Ready to erase disc window, activate the Close this wizard after the disc is erased option and click Next.

Creating the System Repair Disc might take several minutes. After the process is complete, label the disc as instructed and click Close.

You can then safely close all open Create a system repair disc and Recovery Drive windows.

Contents of a Recovery Drive / System Repair Disc

Here's the list of files that a typical Windows 8 Recovery Drive or System Repair Disc contains. Yes, the CD/DVD and USB contents are identical.
To see the sources\boot.wim file in File Explorer, you might have to disable the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) option temporarily. See the Change folder views and options in Windows article for instructions.

• bootmgr
• bootmgr.efi
• boot\BCD
• boot\boot.sdi
• boot\fonts\chs_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\cht_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\jpn_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\kor_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\malgun_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\malgunn_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\meiryo_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\meiryon_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\msjh_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\msjhn_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\msyh_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\msyhn_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\segmono_boot.ttf
• boot\fonts\segoe_slboot.ttf
• boot\fonts\segoen_slboot.ttf
• boot\fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf
• boot\resources\bootres.dll
• efi\boot\bootx64.efi
• efi\microsoft\boot\BCD
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\chs_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\cht_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\jpn_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\kor_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\malgun_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\malgunn_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\meiryo_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\meiryon_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\msjh_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\msjhn_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\msyh_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\msyhn_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\segmono_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\segoe_slboot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\segoen_slboot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf
• efi\microsoft\boot\resources\bootres.dll
• sources\boot.wim

E-mail Configuration For Outlook 2003-Raminfotech

Setup Gmail with Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook Express

Posted in Google, Miscellaneous, Tutorials on September 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Google Mail, the beloved backbone of many small business email communications. Gmail is seen as more professional than your average ‘@yahoo.com’ and ‘@aol.com’, but it shares the same favored monthly fee, free. One service Yahoo! does not offer for free is POP while Gmail does. POP does not mean anything to you other than a fancy name for soda? Click the “What’s POP?” tab below. This article will describe and provide picture perfect, simple screenshots for configuring Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook Express to download and view your Gmail emails from your computer. Let’s face it, words just aren’t as simple as pictures.

PLEASE ENABLE POP IN YOUR GMAIL SETTINGS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE HOW TO DO THIS, PLEASE VISIT THE “What’s POP?” TAB.

• Outlook 2003
• Outlook 2007
• Outlook Express
• What’s POP?

Configuring Gmail for Outlook 2003

Outlook 2003 is not as straight forward and friendly as Outlook 2007. It requires you to manually select authentication, port numbers, etc. No need to worry, we cover all of that in one straight shot.
Step 1. We setup a new email account. In order to do so, you can find the wizard at Tools -> Email Accounts.
Step 2. The wizard pops up and is ready to preform some magic.
Step 3. Select POP3.
Step 4. Enter your info as follows:

• Your Name: anything you want, this is optional
• E-mail Address: required, this is your Gmail account. You must include ‘@gmail.com’
• Username: same as E-mail Address
• Password: your Gmail password
• POP3 and SMTP are just the URL’s in which Outlook access’s Google’s Mail for incoming and outgoing.

After setting up everything as demonstrated below, click “More Settings”.
Step 5.  In the “Outgoing Server” tab, click “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” and make sure the radio button “Use same settings as my incoming mail server” is selected.
Step 6. Proceed to the “Advanced” tab. FIRST, check the “This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” first for both the “Incoming server (POP3):” and “Outgoing server (SMTP):”. Normally, this should automatically set your ports to 995 and 25 as demonstrated below. If it does not, type it in manually.
Step 7. Finish! When you return to your normal Outlook 2003 screen after the wizard closes, tap the F9 key to start receiving emails!

Configuring Gmail for Outlook 2007

Luckily, Outlook 2007 is very simple to setup.
Step 1. Go to “Tools -> Account Settings…”.
Step 2.  On the ‘Email’ tab, click ‘New’ and a new wizard window should appear.
Step 3.  In the “Your Name:” field, type in your name. Outook will send messages using this name and when other users receive an email from you, it will use the “Display name” in the “From” field.
In the “E-mail Address:” field, type in your Gmail email account. Please include the “@gmail.com” extension.
And last but not least, type in your Gmail email account password. Do NOT select ‘Manually configure server settings or additional server settings’. Outlook will auto-pilot the configuration process in the next step.

Step 4. The final and easiest step of them all. Simply let the automatic configuration run and Outlook will do the rest of the setting up for you. Once it’s completed and looks like the screen below, click “Finish”.
That’s it!
Note: Outlook should automatically configure it as POP3 for the incoming server.

Configuring Gmail for Outlook Express

Outlook Express is roughly the same as Outlook 2003.
Step 1. Click “Tools -> Accounts”.

Step 2. We want to setup a new “Mail” account. Click “Add -> Mail” on the right side.

Step 3. Next, we enter in our display name. This can be anything. Keep in mind that Outook will send messages using this name and when other users receive an email from you, it will use the “Display name” in the “From” field.

Step 4. Enter your email address. Please make sure you include the ‘@gmail.com’ extension.
Step 5. There is a few different types of connections we can create. The one we want is IMAP. Unlike POP which only downloads emails to Outlook, IMAP actually streams ALL emails including saved, archived, and even folders.
Type in ‘imap.gmail.com’ for the “Incoming Mail” and “smtp.gmail.com” for the “Outgoing mail (SMTP) Server”.

Step 6. Now, we provide out login credentials. Once again, type in your Gmail username INCLUDING the ‘@gmail.com’ extension with your password. Do NOT select “Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)”. After that, you should be greeted with a finish page.

Step 7.  After going selecting “Finish” on the past page, you will be returned to the “Internet Accounts” page with the “Mail” tab already selected with your newly created email account to Gmail. On the right side, click “Properties”.
Step 8. Proceed to the “Servers” tab and under “Outgoing Mail Server”, make sure the “My server requires authentication” IS SELECTED. If you skip past this, you WILL NOT be able to connect to Gmail.

Step 9. Next, go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and click “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)” under both Outgoing Mail and Incoming Mail. Upon clicking the checkboxes, it should automatically make your “Outgoing mail (SMTP)” port 25, and the “Incoming mail (IMAP)” to 993. If it does not do this automatically, please manually set them to 25, 993.

Step 10. After that, hit OK. It should bring you back to the “Internet Accounts” screen and click “Close”.

What is POP3?

POP, it’s all the fizz of the modern email. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mail. POP3 is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet server. Periodically, you (or your client e-mail receiver) check your mail-box on the server and download any mail, probably using POP3. This standard protocol is built into most popular e-mail products, such as Eudora and Outlook Express.

In Modern English, what does this mean?

This means that POP3 is one of two popular ways to download emails from your email account on the web. There is one draw back, when downloading emails, POP3 tends to delete the emails off the server when they arrive in your Outlook inbox.
This is sometimes desired, other times not. It is my recommendation to turn on the “Leave a copy of messages on the server”. This feature is available in all versions of Outlook for POP3.
You do not need to turn this feature on if you select IMAP instead of POP3, as IMAP streams emails and synchronizes instead of actually downloading them per se.

Leave a copy of messages on the server in Outlook 2007:

Enabling POP3 with Gmail

If you’re experiencing difficulty, or the steps listed on the other tabs just aren’t working, you may not have POP3 enabled. In order to enable Gmail to use POP3, in Gmail just go to ‘Settings’ and choose the ‘Forwarding and POP’ tab.

Click on one of the options to enable POP.

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