Using A Recovery Drive To Restore Or Recover Windows - Lenovo Legion Y730-15 series User Manual

Chapter 3. Recovering or restoring Windows
Using a recovery drive to restore or recover
Windows
If Windows cannot start properly, you can use a recovery drive (created in
advance) to restore or recover Windows.
1 Connect the recovery drive to your computer; restart your computer and
set it up to start from the recovery drive.
2 On the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot.
3 Choose a recovery option.
• Select Advanced Options  System Restore to restore your computer
to a system restore point.
• Select Recover from a drive.
Note: If you did not select the Back up system files to the recovery drive option when
creating the recovery drive, Recovery from a drive is not available.
 Attention:
• All personal files created on your computer will be deleted after recovering from the drive.
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Creating a recovery drive
Use a USB drive (not included) to create a recovery drive. You can use it to fix
problems with your computer in cases when Windows cannot start properly.
1 In the search box of your Windows 10, search for Create a recovery drive
and then select it.
Note: The search box is located in the lower‐left corner of the desktop, next to the Start
button.
2 Make sure Back up system files to the recovery drive is selected and
then select Next.
3 Connect a USB drive to your computer, select it and then select Next 
Create.
 Attention:
• If there are personal files on the USB drive, back up all personal files before using it to
create a recovery drive.
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