Easy Steps to Make A Recovery Drive in Windows 8 Using Standard Flash Drive or USB

Recovery drive in Windows 8 is another great features to help user resurrect problems with their PC. Windows 8 facilitates easy ways to create recovery drive and let you free up some space (around 16 GB) by deleting the recovery partition. Creating recovery drive will move all the system repair and maintenance functionality of recovery partition to the USB (your recovery drive) and thus, you'll no longer need the inbuilt recovery partition.

All you need is a USB Drive of capacity up to 16 GB or more to store all the OEM recovery partition content & Windows 8 recovery & maintenance features. Make sure that you haven't stored your valuable files on it as this procedure will permanently wipes off all your current USB Data and make it very fresh. Remember, once you've successfully created the recovery drive, you can't use it for anything else.

Here's how to create recovery drive?

• On the desktop screen at Windows 8 PC, press “CTRL + 'W' ” altogether and type Recovery Drive in the search box.
• Click on the Settings category and again, click on 'Create a Recovery Drive' option from the left side of the window.

  

• Recovery drive window will now open. Check mark the option stating “Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive” and click Next. Clearly, the recovery partition is much heavier in size and that's why we're ask you to have USB of at least 16 GB capacity.

  
  

• On the next step, you'll require to connect the blank USB that we're talking about. You may able to see your USB drive as soon as you connect it to your PC.

  

  Note: 2 GB is required space according to the image above, however it'll ask you for 16 GB space when the “Recovery Option” is selected to be backed up.

• On the next screen (Create the recovery drive screen), a warning message will appear to confirm you that everything on the drive will be deleted. Once you assured that you've successfully copied all your data from the USB, can go for “Create” option.

  
  

• That's all you've to do for creating recovery drive. Depending on the system specs, this step will take some time and finally comes with confirmation dialog that your recovery drive is successfully created.

  

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Analyze the areas where Mac can improve its speed & performance

Who doesn't wish for a Mac that would never go slow and work as fast as it worked on first day of the purchase? Mostly, things are not in the manner we really wish to and same goes for the speed of the Mac OS which with time depreciates. And it's not only Mac but a PC or even a mobile phone, no matter how smart the device is, it will show you its sluggishness after a passage of time.   To get the slow Mac machine re-work like Usain Bolt, one should apply plenty of free tips as well as utilities to get a lightning bolt Mac.  

Firstly, identify the area where improvements can be done? Starting with the storage devices like the system's hard drive which should be always kept clean from all sorts of unwanted files. Defining unwanted files may lead us to those small and bulky files that are not used on Mac but still exist because their presence goes unnoticed. Such files can accumulate in system files, caches folders, log reports, Application, and Utilities folder and download folders. Let us also not forget the trash folder which goes unnoticed from the eye of user for many months. All these crap files collectively enjoy good amount of free space from the hard drive making the Mac painfully slow.  

But why Caches will slow down a Mac? This needs to be answered as users have a perception that caches fasten their browsing experience which is true. But at the same time the OS has to locate from pool of caches files to return the users request which indeed consumes more time. So, it is wise to shorten the amount of cache file and keep only required ones. 

Does new installation hurts free space?

Further, any time a software is installed on the Mac OS X the hard drive again cuts down the storage space to save plenty of unwanted language files. It's obvious as a English user I have no formalities left with the Spanish, German, Italian or Russian scripts. All such files would be useless to me and must be removed keeping my default language English with me. To get this and above problem solve we have Mac cleaner utilities that analyzes these files and display to users for final removal, resulting in free space for the OS X. It is important to undertake that many times a Mac cleaner tool removes universal binaries making the PowerPC application go nuts. If you want those application to run back on your Mac then you need to fresh install them. So careful, you don't select Universal Binary if you have application based on them. 

A Speed up Mac tool hunts down the cluttered data from hard drive folders such as caches, logs, downloads, system junks and leftovers. The tool can also let you uninstall a troubled application that trash won't be able to do. One such peculiar code is Error Code-8003 where some stubborn refuse to be removed from the system. 

Tip: Consider installing a SSD drive to your Mac & experience the lightning bolt performance. 

Though RAM is not a storage device but its contribution to the performance of Mac is highly noticeable. Whether a Mac is slow or fast can be determined by its RAM size. A healthy RAM size always help the user to quickly swap between several open applications, launch an application instantly, thrilling games experience and much more. It's a fact; most users have reported superb OS X performance by merely upgrading their system's RAM size. If you believe it's the RAM that would make a huge performance difference then you must upgrade now.

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Easily Move Your Current OS from Old SSD to Brand New Higher Capacities SSD

SSD, stands for Solid State Drives made its strong presence in the storage industry and gradually become popular from the very first day of its release. Continuously falling SSD prices may be the reasons of its growing popularity and significant improvement in SSD uses. 

However, Cliff Sun, director of product marketing at San Disk, claims that that these trends will going to break this year and no further decreases in SSD prices for users. Cliff also said that SSD market player may reduce the cost in coming days that may end up with up with some existing manufacturer out of the market.

Nowadays, a SSD costs you around $1/GB whereas, a normal HDD would costs around 50 cents per gigabyte, exactly half of the SSD prices. But SSD's are considered to be more safe, reliable, and faster than modern hard drives. This would ultimately increase your PC uses productivity, provides better gaming experience, give less or not at all any data loss situations.

Due to increased data loss cases from the traditional hard drive drives by firmware corruption, manufacturer fault, virus/ malware infections etc.,  HDD supplies were fallen to 578 Million in 2012 than 626 Million in 2011, report claims.

                     

Probably, you've already turned to SSD and replaces traditional hard drives or using it for merely as a backup drive or as an extra storage space for keeping all your important files. You may find a good discussion here about why you should get an SSD and keep your HDD too.

Most of the time, users preferred to purchase low capacity solid state drives due to its higher costs over traditional hard disk drive. Low capacities solid state drives may suddenly runs out of space to install any application program or to save your data. Thus, you need to replace the current SSD with higher capacities SSDs, so could you store any more data or play any high graphics game.

To switch from old low capacities solid state drives to your brand new SSD, you'll need a payware (costs you around $20) from Paragon entitled Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 3.0. This software will easily align your new SSD according to Windows 7 and make it primary bootable device. You don't need to waste hours to install new OS and copy/move all your files. Just install and run this program, it will manage the rests operation and give you exactly the same OS with any or all the pre existed programs already installed.

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