Hi,

A Hp Envy 17 notebook, run for the very first time, asks for a Flash Drive of at least 32Gb to make a recovery drive.
Anyone any ideas on how to reduce this, dare I say ridiculous, amount of memory for a simple recovery drive?
Thx

HP support would explain this for your particular case.

However, for creating recovery installation disk you will need less space (DVD size), for recovery of your istalation 32 GB space is appropriate space.

Regards

Milos

HP support would explain this for your particular case.

However, for creating recovery installation disk you will need less space (DVD size), for recovery of your istalation 32 GB space is appropriate space.

Regards

Milos

• Marked as answer by Swift 4 hours 27 minutes ago

Hi Swift,

Considering it is the first time to use the HP machine ,I agree with Milos. It is recommended to ask for help from the HP forum .They will be more familiar with this case .

As for creating a recovery drive ,here is a link for reference :
Create a USB recovery drive
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-HK/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive

Best regards

• Marked as answer by Swift 4 hours 27 minutes ago