Unable to make Windows recovery disk - HP Envy 15 - Windows 8.1

While Windows is booting well, it seems I have to do a recovery.
On booting and pressing F11I get the message
Your PC needs to be repaired. A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed.
Error code 0xc0000225
On the other side when I try in Windows "Create a recovery drive" I got a message on the second page telling me
"Some necessary files are missing ..." and that's it!
How to proceed ???

You need to either ask a friend who has the very same Windows 8.1 version if you can make a usb Windows 8.1 recovery flash drive. You should be able to fix the error with it. You can purchase recovery media from HP.
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Success!
Although I have to say that with a poplation of over 7 billion I did think that my problem would have attracted more response than just one reply.
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