USB recovery for Win10-One per computer?

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I now have three win10 computers. Do I need to create a USB recovery drive for each one or will one be good for all three? thanks. I do notice that we don't get a product code if we upgraded but Win10 should recognize each computer as being ok for recover

Ron75 · Answer

Your product code should be the one that was for your old OS. If you had a code for all three computers it should be OK to use the one recovery drive, but if each computer had a different code then you will need a recovery drive for each one. Example is if one or two of them had Windows 7 and the other had Windows 8, you would have a different Key. Also if all three Were Windows 7 or 8 and each had it's own Key then you would also need three different recovery drives.

Ron

Dominic · Answer

Guess I'm wrong. According to Microsoft's answers site a recovery drive is unique to each PC. So you'll need one per computer. Here's the link.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/do-i-need-a-separate-recovery-drive-for-each-pc/bacaf3c5-cce1-4b9e-9912-39f67150676d?auth=1

I don't bother with recovery drives and create bootable install media in case I need to reinstall the OS.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install

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