Cool I logged into my pc which has now been restarting spontaneously after coming out of sleep for each of the last three mornings. I brought it out of sleep and got the BSOD. Really cool!
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My only two options are F2 & F12 as explained above. neither provide a boot option to DVD as I can see although there is a icon of a DVD , USB drive on the Onboard NIC ipv4 option, whatever that is,...

I suspect my only hope now is

1.) Redo the boot drive, this time on a flash drive instead of a DVD. I went to Dell support manual for my pc (my tech support just expired so I have none) and it...

OK I did that, all is good, but I wish I wouldn't have. Now it apparently automatically duplicated the drive image and I'm showing two in the Macrium interface (the same image with different headers)...

Thanks so much, I am going to do that yet tonight, although it appears my Dell will not allow a backup from a DVD.

Well shucks, F12 is a no go. Below is what is there.

UEFI Options:
Windows Boot Manager
Onboard NIC (IPV4)
Onboard NIC (IPV6)
Other Options:
Bios Setup
Diagnostics
BIOS...

Thanks, but I'm on Win 10 home...

Steve, that is very helpful, I may try that even if the DVD works, I didn't have a spare one lying around when I tried this, but I had a load of DVDS. I going to pick up some today, they are on sale...

Yes sir, I have a recovery drive on DVD, all went well during that process with the VIM mounted, etc. It says the drive was successfully created. And I also have a disc image on a Western Digital...

Alright Bree, I'll try that.

Also can you tell me, is this the right order?

1. Attach USB or load a DVD with backup
2. Attach External HD with image
3. Shutdown / Start (restart does not...

I am somehow not understanding how to do this.

I have Macrium Free and I created a backup on DVD and an image of the C:/ drive on an external WD drive. All appears good.

Macrium says test the...

Oops will do, I'm usually posting about my win 10 machine here!

My family pc is a win 7 pc (3 GB RAM, 266 GB free space on C; drive, 5-7 years old?) that has so far survived updates from windows except for one BSOD episode after the Autumn update last year as I...

OK now I see, that makes sense...thanks very much for the kind help!

Would this work, since the problem stems from win 10 home version, can I upgrade to pro and then just shut off updates?

Thanks, I will look into this, but won't microsoft just figure this out and find a way around it? It seems like a crap shoot? But at any rate, I really appreciate the kind suggestion and help.

Yes that is my thinking, best to stay offline and continue to use an external drive to port projects over to another pc and back again, if necessary...

But is this for after windows has updated? I doubt my pc will survive another update...it seems to hate the drivers my equipment uses...this pc does nothing else but music and film, no browser no...

Hello, I was referred here by some wonderful folks on the sonar forums. I am hoping to just do my work and stop worrying about my pc and windows updates. I have win 10 home, it is a brand new Dell XP...