My laptop has a message requesting 'create system recovery media'. Since purchasing the notebook, I have upgraded to win10 (the free online version), from win8.1, which I upgraded from 8.0 immediately after purchase. I have a 3 disk recovery set which I think I made when I bought the HP.

The instructions indicate that only one set can be made. Also, the instructions indicate that more than 3 disks are needed.

Flashpro 400 Software. But when I start the process only a USB option is available. How do I determine if the 3 disk set is the right set for this PC? I'm confused. Hello; Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums! I read your post about creating recovery media and wanted to help. If you didn't create the HP Recovery Media before doing the Win10 upgrade, it is a waste of time trying to do that now.

Create Recovery Media using HP Recovery Manager This is very easy and not much time consuming as well. As this tool is an inbuilt tool of HP laptop, you do not need to install any third party app in this case. The HP recovery program to Create Recovery Media is only supposed to work once. So I would (and I did) do a dry run first, going thru the menus. It may be the actual USB that is the problem. I had a 'successfull' one that created blank media and would not run again.

First, the Win10 Upgrade has a nasty history of corrupting OEM recovery information, and if that happened to yours, any media you create is not going to work. Second, that media would only have been for the original OS, and the recovery information is not updated when you do the Win10 upgrade. Drivers Epson Dfx 8500 Error. So, the media could not be used for a Win10 recovery. My suggestion, is if you want to create recovery media for Win10, then consider using a third-party solution known as Macrium Reflect (MR). What I recommend is the following: 1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) 2) Run MR and choose the option: 'Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows' to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stick 3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 10 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore. Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. Mhp3rd Patch Teamhgg.