A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.

If your PC is operating perfectly right now, great! But getting ahead of any future PC fiascos with a recovery drive may save you from a major tech-induced headache later.

The ability to make a recovery disk or USB drive is one of the most useful troubleshooting tools included with Windows 10.

How to make a bootable USB drive If you're trying to install a new operating system or flash your BIOS, you're going to need a bootable USB drive - here's how to make one.

To create a Windows 11 installation drive, you'll need an empty 8GB USB drive, a Windows PC and up to a few hours of your time.