Can't Create USB Recovery Drive after Win 8.1 upgrade on Lenovo Twist

After upgrading to Win 8.1 and trying to create the usb recovery drive, I get this error:
"We can't create a reccovery drive on this PC. Some required files are missing.To trouble shoot problems when your PC starts,use your window installation disk or media"
Can some give me a hint as to how to solve this?Thx.
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I contacted Lenovo who sent me out a set of 4 Recovery disks. These disks fixed the problem but it meant wiping out the hard drive and reinstalling very thing from scratch. A new recovery partition is created and the discs reinstalled Win 8 which had to be updated. Then Win 8.1 could be installed. Everything is now working as it should.

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Hello fellow HP PC users;
I was wondering if anyone with a DVD drive equiped laptop had successfully created a USB Recovery Set?
I just spent the last 2 days trying to do this on my new laptop - to no avail (HP nag messaged me that it was important to copy the D:/ drive recovery partition to a USB or DVD discs) . I'm not big on CD/DVD backups as, in the past, I've experienced unwanted failures when previousl attempting a factory restore, so I wanted to use a USB drive for this backup. The HP utility for recovery disc creation only produced a gold spinning wheel/disc when a USB drive was inserted and this continued for hrs. Several tries with different USBs and ports produced similar non-results.
Today I spent an hour with Roger and Siva of HP Tech Support. I initially gave Roger a list of all of the things I had tried and I think we hit it off, as he was particularly excited about the stuff I knew, that he was unaware of. He promptly agreed that I had done everything possible to resolve the issue and he said he would send me a USB Recovery Set. This had to be authorized by his Supervisor Siva. After a half an hour on hold Siva came on the line to confirm my mailing info and said that he was authorizing the shipping of a set of recovery DVDs and that he would wave the normal $40 charge. When I asked why he wasn't sending me a USB copy, he said that because my laptop came with a DVD drive he was only authorized to mail DVDs. Exhausted, I capitulated and said "O.K. then .... go ahead and make my day and send me the DVDs!" Nontheless, I will go to bed crying for the next few nights because I wasn't able to make/get a USB copy.
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You are allowed to "make" only one set. You haven't made one yet.
I just created my Recovery USB for Envy 15t- j100 using>> PNY Turbo 3.0 - so it is not limited to 2.0 flash drives.
I first tried with a Sandisk Extreme 3.0 which produced the same thing that you experienced... no matter what I tried. (I actually was just testing it since many had reported not being able to use that model)
I did discover that even with the PNY it would only work if I waited to insert it when Recovery Manager was at the screen where you choose usb or cd/dvd.
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Can't create a recovery drive: "Some required files are missing"

Hi guys,
Didn't have much luck in MS forums, maybe somebody here knows?
Whenever I try to create a recovery drive I find that "We can't create a recovery drive on this PC. Some required files are missing. To troubleshoot problems when your PC can't start, use your Windows installation disc or media."
Uh?
Is a fresh Windows 8 x64 (RTM) installation. Only thing that I can think of is it has UEFI and Secure Boot enabled.
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Hey there dann,
What version of Windows 8 are you using? It appears you may need to the Window 8 disc to be able to create the recovery drive because it needs files that are not on your system. I found those part numbers for the Windows 8 recovery media for you.
04T7196 - Win 8 64 Bit US
04T7223 - Win 8 Pro 64 Bit US
Additional part numbers can be found here for all system parts and recovery media for you the Twist (s230u). If you contact service back they should be able to get the media sent to you. Good Luck.
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Can no longer make system image after Win 8.1 upgrade (error 0x80780119)

I've recently upgraded to 8.1 and am now trying to make system image.
Unfortunately, it's failing with error 80780119.
[Image of failed backup|http://www.sawyourad.com/toshiba/failed.png]
I've had this happen before on another computer system, and resizing the recovery partition seems to fix it, and is what's suggested on the web.
However, I can't seem to do that on this machine, diskmgmt.msc doesn't seem to show any disk space used, and worse, many of the partitions seem to be duplicated
[image of disk partitions|http://www.sawyourad.com/toshiba/diskmgmt.png]
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I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
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I hope I don't need to add Toshiba to my don't buy list.
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Hi
>I hope I don't need to add Toshiba to my don't buy list.
This is not a option buddy. Why? Because it seems that this is a common Windows issue as many people asked for a solution in the Microsoft forums and community.
[Backup fails Error code 0x81000019|http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/25deba76-464b-4a9d-9b32-a283bb6a88ce/windows-7-rc-backup-fails-errorcode-0x81000019?forum=w7itproperf]
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But it looks like his error come when hidden System Reserved partition created by Windows system does not have enough space to store a shadow copy.
Please check the freespace on this volume.
Follow the following steps:
1. Start -> Computer -> Right click -> Manage
2. Select Storage -> Disk management.
3. Verify that you have a System Reserved partition of around 100 MB size or more
4. If yes, right click on this volume and select Properties.
5. View used and free space.
Windows backup requires around 40 MB of free space on this partition to backup successfully.
So if the free space is less than 40 GB, backup does not get enough free space.
As a workaround try the following solution:
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4. From elevated command-prompt run: DISKPART
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Twist - Create a recovery drive.

I'm trying to create a recovery drive on the Twist I just received but, when I go to do so I receive the following error:
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Some required files are missing. To troubleshoot problems when your PC can't start, use your Windows installation disc or media"
The computer did not come with recovery media but has recovery partitions that aren't assigned drive letters. I called support and told them it wouldn't work and they didn't even try to troubleshoot. Instead they attempted to look up a part number for the recovery discs, which they could not find. Has anyone else run into this or a similar problem?
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Hey there dann,
What version of Windows 8 are you using? It appears you may need to the Window 8 disc to be able to create the recovery drive because it needs files that are not on your system. I found those part numbers for the Windows 8 recovery media for you.
04T7196 - Win 8 64 Bit US
04T7223 - Win 8 Pro 64 Bit US
Additional part numbers can be found here for all system parts and recovery media for you the Twist (s230u). If you contact service back they should be able to get the media sent to you. Good Luck.
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S210 Touch Windows USB Recovery Drive does not boot

I have an S210 Touch and I am looking to swap out the existing hard drive for an SSD. Looking to do this in a "sanctioned" way from the discussion forums i.e. create a recovery USB drive WITH the Recovery Partition and boot from it - this would be the same use case if the hard drive crashed and I want to recover to a blank replacement drive:
http://lnv.gy/Y0hlMU
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http://support.lenovo.com/en/documents/ht076024
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Hi,
You can order a replacement set of Recovery Discs using the link below.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00810334&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
If you have any problem with this link, order them directly from HP.
If you live in the US, contact HP Here.
If you are in another part of the world, start Here.
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