How to Troubleshoot Windows 10 failure to boot using Recovery Environment
Information
Windows failing to boot can be a daunting experience, the Recovery environment built into Windows 10 is designed to overcome a variety of problems that cause Windows 10 to fail to boot. This tutorial details the options available and how to use them.
Warning
Read the following instructions carefully before proceeding with the Recovery environment, some options may cause you to lose settings, updates or files.
INTRODUCTION
List of Contents
Preface: Entering the Recovery Environment
Option One: System Restore
Option Two: Refresh Windows 10
Option Three: Reset Windows 10
Option Four: System Image Recovery
PREFACE
Entering the Recovery Environment
1: When Windows 10 fails to boot you will be taken to the Recovery screen. Click Restart my PC
A) If your PC reboots successfully you can disregard the rest of this tutorial.
B) If your PC boots back to the Recovery screen, follow Step 2.
2: Click See advanced Repair options
3: At the Choose an option screen click Troubleshoot
OPTION ONE
System Restore
1: Click Advanced Options
OPTION TWO
Refresh Windows 10
1: Click on Refresh your PC
OPTION THREE
Reset Windows 10
1: Click on Reset your PC
OPTION FOUR
System Image Recovery
Information
The
System Image Recovery option will only be executable if you have previously created a
Windows System Image.
Note
Restoring a system image may take between a few minutes and a few hours depending on the size of your system image.
1: Click on System Image Recovery
2: On the Choose an account to continue screen click the name of the account you will use to restore the image
3: Enter the password for the chosen account
4: Select a system image backup.
A) By default the Use the latest available system image (recommended) option is selected. If you wish to use this option click Next
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If you select this option skip to
Step 5.
If you wish to choose a different image follow
Step 4: B)
B) If you wish to select a different system image click on
Select a system image then click
Next
Highlight the location where your desired image is stored and click
Next
Highlight the image you wish to restore and click
Next
5: At this point you will be asked if you would like to
Choose additional restore options
A) Check the
Format and repartition disks to restore your hard drives and partitions to the state they were in at the time the image was taken. Click the
Exclude disks... button to exclude certain drives from the repartitioning process
Tip
If the options are greyed out (as in the screenshot above) click on
Install drivers... to install the drivers for your disk drives from an external source (USB stick or CD/DVD)
B) Click on
Advanced to set further instructions before restoring the image.
To make additional changes before restarting the PC uncheck the
Automatically restart this computer after the restore is complete option
To prevent a
Disk Check run uncheck the
Automatically check and update disk error information option
Once you have chosen your additional options click
Next
6: Check your image choice is correct and click Finish, then confirm the restore by clicking Yes.
That's it,
Gav.