Move Windows 8 or Microsoft Surface Recovery Partition To USB Drive

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In this video you step you through the process of relocating your Windows 8 recovery partition to an external drive. This process takes about 10 minutes and frees up approximately 7GB of hard drive space on your primary partition, which is great for the Microsoft Surface and other Windows 8 devices with limited hard drive space.

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hey whats up guys this is Brad gruesome
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today ministry hey can move the recovery
partition for Windows 8
to a secondary drive to free up some
space on your primary hard disk
to do so we're going to navigate to the
control panel
and you can do so by the right term
spawning settings
in hitting control panel and then from
here
under system and security you're gonna
miss you gonna select this a backup copy
the files with file history
and then the bottom left hand corner
undersea also you will see recovery and
127 power career gonna hit recovery
from this point this is where we create
the system restore point
you can also move your system restore
point or configure system restore point
so to actually create a new system
restore point and move it to a new
driver when hit
create recovery drive her to Tahoe
skinny you a C prompt
and then make sure to check box in the
bottom copy recovery partition from the
PC to the recovery drive
is checked and so that's what we want to
do we move to cover drive from RC drive
to its separate device
so hit next and here's gonna find
my D Drive that is available and its Rd
label recovery is about to this process
once but when you do it again
I'm so just hit next year if you have a
thumb drive or anything like that it
should finally here
any if you have multiple USB drives
attached make sure you choose the right
one
because this will wipe all the data on
the recovery Jeff you're using
just be extra careful something hit next
against me and say everything is going
to be
deleted on this drive so I just to
create and that's gonna format
and then to rate the recovery drive a
in this process depending on the size
the drive depending on how big your
your truck recovery partition is should
only take a few minutes
summer positivity 0 are skip ahead and
then we'll come back
alright so here we are top 20 minutes
later and it only took about eight
minutes
I just started recording again so it's a
to take a look at but the recovery drive
so go here and you can see the recovery
drive uses
about seven gigs arm space
which is which means it is
frees up seven gigs from your actual C
Drive if he could go to the partition
I'm you'll see all the files be manager
and things like that
so this is a quick way to actually free
about 72 space
on your us local storage your SSD
and put it on an external drive from
concern that USB thumb drives
about 10 to 15 bucks for sixteen years
amid
it's a great way to free up some space
on your crucial C Drive so there you
have it
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