Windows 10: Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

How to: Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

How to Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10


Advanced startup enables you to perform these actions:

• Start recovery (aka: Windows RE or WinRE), troubleshooting, and diagnostic tools.
• Boot from a disk (ex: USB or DVD) or device (UEFI only)
• Access the PC's UEFI firmware
• Restore Windows from a system image
• Choose default operating system to boot to on PC if multiple operating systems are installed

When you boot to advanced startup, all user sessions are signed off. If you select a Windows RE feature from this menu, the PC restarts into Windows RE and the selected feature is launched.

In some situations, Windows RE automatically tries to repair the system. Also, these situations automatically cause a failover to Windows RE:

• Two consecutive failed attempts to start Windows.
• Two consecutive unexpected shutdowns that occur within two minutes of boot completion.
• A Secure Boot error (except for issues related to Bootmgr.efi).
• A BitLocker error on touch-only devices.

If users boot to advanced startup from within Windows and select a Windows RE tool, they must provide the user name and password of an administrator account on the local PC. This doesn't apply to the Reset your PC feature.


This tutorial will show you how to boot to the advanced startup options in Windows 10.


Contents

• Option One: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Settings in Windows 10
• Option Two: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Power Menu (Shift+Restart)
• Option Three: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from "Choose an operating system"
• Option Four: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Recovery Drive
• Option Five: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Windows 10 Installation USB or DVD
• Option SIX: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from a Hard Reboot
• Option SEVEN: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Command

EXAMPLE: Advanced Startup Options at boot for Windows 10






















OPTION ONE [/i] Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Settings in Windows 10
1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Update & security icon.

2 Click/tap on Recovery on the left side, and click/tap on Restart now under Advanced startup on the right side. (see screenshot below)








OPTION TWO [/i] Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Power Menu
1 Do step 2, 3, or 4 below for what Power menu you would like to use.

2 Open the Start Menu, click/tap on the Power button, press and hold the Shift key, and click/tap on Restart. (see screenshot below)



3 Press the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys, click/tap on the Power button, press and hold the Shift key, and click/tap on Restart. (see screenshot below)



4 While on the Sign-in screen, click/tap on the Power button, press and hold the Shift key, and click/tap on Restart. (see screenshot below)








OPTION THREE [/i] Boot to Advanced Startup Options from "Choose an operating system"
This option is only available if you are dual booting with another operating system.


1 While at boot on the Choose an operating system screen, click/tap on Change defaults or choose other options at the bottom. (see screenshot below)



2 Click/tap on Choose other options. (see screenshot below)








OPTION FOUR [/i] Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Recovery Drive
The Reset this PC option in "Troubleshoot" and Startup Settings option in "Advanced options" will not be available using this option.


1 recovery drive.

2 Choose your keyboard layout language. (see screenshot below)








OPTION FIVE [/i] Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Windows 10 Installation USB or DVD
The Reset this PC option in "Troubleshoot" and Startup Settings option in "Advanced options" will not be available using this option.


1 Windows 10 ISO file.

2 Select your language preferences, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on Repair your computer at the bottom. (see screenshot below)








OPTION SIX [/i] Boot to Advanced Startup Options from a Hard Reboot
This option can be handy if you are unable to boot into Windows.


1 Press and hold the power button on your PC until it powers off.

2 Press the power button on your PC to turn it on.

3 Repeat steps 1 and 2 above until you see the Windows logo screen or Please wait during boot like below. Usually it may take repeating up to 3 times. (see screenshot below)



4 When displayed, click/tap on See advanced repair options. (see screenshot below)








OPTION SEVEN [/i] Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Command
1 Open a command prompt or Run (Win+R) dialog.

2 Type the command below, and press Enter.

shutdown /r /o /f /t 00

That's it,
Shawn


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Windows Image Backup Restore

You would need to boot to advanced startup:

Advanced Startup Options - Boot to in Windows 10
Then Troubleshoot>Image restore.

 

Kernel data inpage error

Have you tried Advanced Options, Troubleshoot, System Restore?

How to Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

 

Hello rseiler,

If you like, you could use the option in the tutorial below to add Safe Mode to your boot menu to have available if needed when you don't have any boot media to use instead. This is the same in Windows 10 as Windows 8. *Smile

Add Safe Mode to Boot Options in Windows 10 Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

 

I completely forgot about that. Great idea, I think, for at least the duration of the beta, especially considering how frequently the builds might be updated. It's a pain to continually be making recovery USBs.

 

Thanks Brink.
I was wondering where Boot Options was located.

 

Another great one Shawn thank you for the hard work *Smile
Cheers.

 

Maybe I missed that somewhere in the text - in my Asus laptop I have an additional option. I can get into the Advanced Startup Options by tapping F9 after power-on.

 

That would be nice if manufacturers would have an "Advanced Startup" option next to the other "Boot Menu" and "Startup (UEFI)" key options.

 

Yeah, would be nice if all of the manufacturers could agree on some common BIOS standards. But this F9 facility is on both of my Asus devices, The T100 and the X205.

 

I do not have a start menu like as show above. How can I get that?

 

Any restart button will do. Just hold the Shift key down when you press Restart.

 

I did that but it still does not look like the one I posted. It is close but no programs are there in the left panel.

 

That was from an older build of Windows 10. The Start menu no longer looks like that in build 10041, but this screenshot serves the purpose of the tutorial for now until I get all screenshots updated as needed after each new build release.

 

Great tutorial - if you can get to the windows login screen! Many of thoose in trouble are thoose who are stuck on black screen after upgrade - please provide tutorial on how to get either the upgrade finished or how to reboot into safe mode.

Microsoft is - in my opinion- stupid! They should have enabled Safe mode in the upgrade so that if something went wrong, then people would have a choice - now many are stuck with a non-functioning system after upgrade and no way to get to safe mode, because there is no option to make an Windows 10 DVD before you have booted into you newly installed windows 10 for the first time and downloaded the DVD creation tool - MS=0 intelligense!

I have spent 25 years of troubleshooting this kind of stupidity!

JBJ