Tag: recovery

Repair a Non-Booting PC with a USB Recovery Drive

If you find that your PC isn’t booting to the desktop this doesn’t mean that it’s unrecoverable.  It’s possible that something such as a hardware driver or Windows Update has caused the system to become unstable.  It is possible though to roll back changes made…

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Reset a Non-Booting Installation of Windows

If something goes wrong with your PC and you find that Windows no longer starts to the desktop, you can reinstall the operating system from the Recovery Console.  If Windows fails to start three times then it will start its recovery process automatically, but if…

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Create a Recovery Drive for your PC

If something goes wrong with your PC and it’s unable to boot to the desktop, you need to be able to recover it to a working state.  Much of the time you’ll be presented with the Recovery Console if the PC fails to start three…

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Windows Installation, Updating, and Recovery Troubleshooting

My 14th Pluralsight course, Windows Installation, Updating, and Recovery troubleshooting is now available to watch. A PC is not a PC without a working operating system on board, and productivity doesn’t exist unless this happens smoothly, efficiently, and with a result that’s stable, resilient, and…

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Troubleshoot your PC with Safe Mode and Diagnostic Mode

Don’t Reinstall… Reset!

Sometimes everything goes badly wrong and, no matter what you try to do to repair a problem in Windows, the only solution is to reinstall the OS.  But Microsoft have announced that System Image Backup, the full disc image backup feature that’s been included since…

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