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Win 10 won't boot, recovery steps will not run
My Dell desktop running 21H1 failed to reboot on a restart. Win10 went through it's recovery attempts, doing a disk check, repair but that didn't help. I cannot boot into safe mode.
I don't have a backup and I never set a restore point, so it appears the only thing I can do is burn a ISO DVD and try to reinstall Win10.
I tried a repair from the machine and from the cloud, neither of which would work. As I understand it, my choice for the ISO is either a 8gB+ stick or a DL DVD. The desktop does attempt to access the DVD when I power it up, so I am hoping it is #1 in the
boot device list. I don't think things progress to the point where a USB stick would be recognized. I understand the BIOS can only be accessed by settings in Win10, no keyboard shortcut on boot now.
I can get to the command line and chkdsk reports no problems with the SSD, but it shows only 358 mB of total disk space, not the 2 tB capacity the disk has (or had!) I'm very suspicious the SSD is down for the count.
My plan is to make the ISO on my Win10 laptop (same version) though I will have to buy a DL DVD to make it.
Does this appear to be the right course I'm on?