We all know that system recovery and re-installation can be a pain, even with a recovery image on your hard drive. And those recovery images can take up a HUGE about of drive space! In Windows 10, Microsoft plans to change that forever.
The Windows’ refresh and rest functions won’t need a separate recovery image. The company estimates that will save between 4 and 12 GB on your hard drive, depending on the device. If you have a gigantic hard drive, that’s not a huge amount of space, but for people using tablets and notebooks with smaller hard drives, it’s a big deal. And, after all, you paid for the hard drive, you might as well get all of the space available.
The refresh and reset functions will rebuild the OS using the runtime system files. That means you won’t have to reinstall every update after your device has gone through recovery. For more severe issues, you will be able to create your own recovery media with Windows 10.
~ Cynthia
That’s awesome, can’t wait to get Windows 10. How will we know if everything will be compatible with the new system? Printers, cameras, etc.
Perhaps more important than disk space savings.
What use is a recovery partition if the hard disk crashes and is totally useless? USB or DV recovery media every time, or even better a full system backup post system and apps installation
a very good idea.
Sounds plausible. Hope it works out.
Why does Microsoft insist on making things different? I would go along with improvements to their products but they insist on changing it completely. examples: ribbon bar, no start menu, now no recovery app etc.
thats right, we paid for the hardrive , we also paid for the OS, so if you take that, go back to sending us the dvd OS as a replacement
Agree with Phil, I dont understand what are they going to give us to reinstall the OS if they remove the recovery section? I would rather have the OS dvd. I build my own computers anyway so I have the disk.
Also agree that we should be given the system DVD !!!
I guess this is good news. I needed the re-build function once and it saved my hide. I did not have to start from scratch with a full restoration from back ups. Hope this new method will not be less effective.
It’s sound great. I hope it’ll be as it seems it’ll be.
Its the computers owners responability to clean their drives and get rid of junk files and unused progams .Removing the recovery drive is Not a good IdeA. Clean up your drives and Reclaim that space that is cluttering up your drives.
I have never used recovery. My complaint is that they got rid of Restore in 8.1. Bring back restore.
We frequently have to resort to the recovery partition or the DVD media to perform a restore. This is commonly brought about by a corrupted OS following a threat removal that left the OS damaged. Restoring from the runtime files is restoring from the corrupted OS that we are deliberating trying to eliminate by the windows refresh or the clean restoration process. This looks like we are shooting ourselves in the foot in order to use 32 GB SSD’s. Why not bigger SSD’s. The prices have been dramatically falling lately. Thanks.
MS has a problem trying to make one size fit all. Keeping the restore files on the C drive makes a problem for SSD users and tablets etc re space. . For my desktop, with disks so cheap, I just installed a larger drive ($30 extra) and my space problem was solved. But I would like to have a completely system recovery EASILY available on a separate drive. It looks like MS is spending a lot of effort (deservedly) for the tablet users, but should give the desktop users some recovery alternatives.
I second the reply from Phil. Keeping backup of the OS on the hard drive is asking for total
loss with hard drive failure. Backup to external media, drive cloning, etc are far more secure
and safe.
Might as well, the system they have now rarely works anyway. They should keep Restore Points though as they are essential. I use external drives for back up any way and think they should have a mode where you can dupe a bootable HD and a check off that will let it up date to match the computers modifications after they are working satisfactorily. In other words it don’t auto update when you add something as it may cause a problem or have to be amended. You would tell it to up date at a time you are happy with it. But it makes too much sense and won’t work on game machines and telephone so they will go to Disney and get Goofy to do it like he did Windows 8.
No I don’t think it’s a good idea, we have paid for the rights to use their software so how are they going to supply it to us. I have made backups and forgot where they were stored and the more you panic that you can’t find something the further away it hides itself. There’s an old saying called sods law “If it can happen it will happen”
This new development is to wean us off of having to store our own OS and data etc. and force us to use One Drive at a cost for useage. It’s all about the money
Every time Microsoft has “given” us something to make Windows, computing in general a better experience, it come with some new problem that is even more difficult to deal with. My first computer was a Vic-20 and yes, we were limited in many areas but oh how easy it was dealing with DOS. Windows 8 by far is the worst I’ve dealt with, it has to get better, right?
And you believe in the tooth fairy who has a far better history of keeping her promises than MS does? Charge an extra $5 and give us a REAL recovery disc or LIFETIME FREE downloads and updates from the website. (do you believe that could ever happen?)
This is a bad idea – I don’t care about saving 2 or 12 GB – or send us the DVD media with the PC.
The solution to this dilemma is simple. All Microsoft has to do is tell the manufacturer to provide a recovery disk or you don’t get to use our O/S.
Better to save your backups on remote storage, but, yes MS, please supply an OS disk. Late in 2014, my computer got hit with the CriptoWall Virus. After a time of trying to restore my desktop, resorted to installing the Windows 7 OS. Fortunately, had 4 weeks of backup on external storage and even one of those weeks was corrupted. All is well now ! Read about my experience with the virus here: http://www.articleposts.com
It sounds quite good…….but will it be as reliable??