of course, you can create recovery drives without wiping any partition.Windows 8 can help you to create a recovery drive (USB) or system repair disc (CD or DVD) that can be used to troubleshoot and restore your computer.or you can choice AOMEI OneKey Recovery,which is not designed for specific brand computer, but for all type of PCs and computers, and you don?t need to prepare some external storage device, such as DVD/CD or USB. The system image file will be create .