USB Recovery Drive Problem for HP Omen 15_ce019dx model

[bikemano5]

Hello there

Purchased this Notebook December 24th 2017, and its working great, anyways made the usb recovery drive when i first set it up,  well was looking for files on other usb drives,  know i didn't accidently erase it,  yet i can't find the files anywhere, is there a way to make a second copy, or will i have to pay to purchase one?

Did use Macrium Reflect to image the drive as well soon as i got it as well, don't know if that will help any

Thank you all in advance

Patrick

[Photoray002 · Accepted solution]

Hello @bikemano5

HP's arent set up to make more than one copy unfortunately.  If you wanted another recovery USB drive, you would have to purchase it from HP.

BUT if you also have an image backup of the new setup via Macrium, just use that. I assume you copied the entire drive?

I do that and also make new backup images every so often. That way, I can revert back to whatever version of Windows upgrade I need to.

If that does not work, you can also simply create a clean installation USB installer from Microsoft and then install whatever drivers you need from HP directly. No need to worry with an activation key, it will self activate once the installation connects to do updates.

Create media Windows 10

Drivers from HP

[bikemano5]

Yes Did a Whole System Image copy after i created the usb recovery drive,   didn't think it would lose the files on that one, but somehow did lol

And yes i do new backup images every so often, usually before a major upgrade version, then usually fine after that, haven't had no issues with the notebook that i had to use it,  do  have Windows 10 USB Installer as well, getting the drivers not such a big deal if needed to

So yeah think i'm ok now that i think about it more

[Photoray002]

"didn't think it would lose the files on that one, but somehow did lol"

Happens to me every once in a while too.

Darned Gremlins.