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Can't Boot from Win 10 Rescue Disk
Using Win10 Pro 64-bit. Have not updated to the Anniversy version yet. PC is an HP desktop which was updated from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro (many months ago). It has UEFI firmware but not Secure Boot.
I use Backup & Restore (Win 7 version) for my backups and to create System images on an external hard disk. Seems to work fine. I recently used that app to create a bootable Rescue disk on a CD. Seemed to create just fine and I can open it an see the files on it.
However, my attempt to test booting from it failed. I got into the BIOS BOOT options and selected the CD drive. The system immediately restarted and tried to boot from the CD. However, it claimed that the disk was not bootable. And then it tried over and over without success. I had to force a power off by holding down the power button. Powering on resulted in a normal system restart.
I've read a bunch of descriptions of how to boot from a rescue disk with Win 10. So far none of them has been accurate as to how to enter the BIOS and how to select the boot options on my system. However, they got me close enough that I did get to select the CD for booting.
I'm wondering a couple things:
1. Should I use the windows built-in facility to generate a rescue disk (rather than the backup & restore app)?
2. Is it easier to boot from a USB thumb drive rather than a CD?
-- Larry