Windows 10: Computer Booting to Recovery

Hey,Just yesterday I performed a Windows update, there were two updates that were downloaded, Windows suggested to restart so I did and walked away, when I returned the computer was shut off and had no restarted.Thinking nothing of this I turned the computer back on and was booted to the blue screen of death and had a “Recovery” screen with the error code 0xc0000221, the options given were to “Try Again”, “Recovery Environment”, “Startup Settings”, and “UEFI Firmware Settings”. Try again came to a black screen briefly before returning to the recovery screen, recovery environment basically rest

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Unable to boot the computer.

Hi Samid,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

Before we proceed, we would require more information to assist you further.

• 
  What is the make and model of your computer?
  

I suggest you check if you are able to boot into Windows Recovery Environment using installation media. Follow the steps provided below and check.

• • Insert the installation USB and boot Windows 10 from it.
  • In the ‘Windows setup’ page select the ‘language to install’, ‘Time and currency format’ and the ‘keyboard or input method’ and click on ‘next’.
  • Click on ‘Repair your computer’ and select ‘Troubleshoot’.

Check if you are able to boot to this window. If you are unable to boot to this window, I suggest you to contact the manufacturer and check.

Hope this information is helpful. Reply us with this information to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

Computer auto recovery not working, computer won't boot to Windows

Hello Jastin,

This issue might have occurred due to a corrupted boot configuration data. For us to efficiently assist you, we would like to know if there were any changes made on your computer prior to the issue.

We suggest that you try to boot your computer from the Windows 10 installation media and perform an Automatic repair from Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). The Automatic repair can detect and resolve the issues that prevent the computer from starting
normally. You may download the Windows installation media on this
link.

You may refer to the steps below on how to perform Automatic repair on Windows 10:

• Insert the media such as (USB or DVD) and restart your computer.
• If you see a message asking you to “Press any key to boot from DVD,” do so.
• When you see the Install Windows page, tap or click on Repair your computer to start the Windows Recovery Mode.
• In the Windows Recovery Environment, on the Choose an option screen, tap or click on Troubleshoot.
• Click on Advanced Options.
• Click on Startup Repair.

Let us know the outcome and if you need further assistance.

 

How does Windows boot to advanced recovery option e.g. command prompt?

- that gives me a 454 'Unexpected error' This tells me that the BCD is partially corrupted.

The commands: shutdown.exe /r /o /f /t 00
or: %SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c reagentc /boottore&shutdown /r /f /t 00
should boot into Recovery if everything is configured correctly.
FYI, If Windows is configured correctly:

1. If Reagentc is disabled, you still can get into Recovery but with limited options.
2. If Reagentc is enabled, you'll get all options.
3. If you boot Windows using Recovery USB stick, You'll get into Recovery with couple of options missing.

Here's my suggestion if you want to try:
OPTION 1: Will save the trouble of re-install Windows.

1. Download the image of my first 3 partitions (450MB Recovery, 100 MB EFI partition, and 16MB unformatted primary)
   EFI_Boot-00-00.7z - Google Drive
2. Run Macrium and restore the image from step 1, overwriting your existing 1st three partitions, leaving C alone.
3. Delete the 490MB Recovery partition.
4. From Macrium, run fix boot problems.
5. Reboot. Open Admin command prompt then run Reagentc /info to make sure that it is enabled. If not, enable it.
   if failed to enable, reboot and try again.

OPTION 2: Assuming you've already had Windows backup with Macrium.

1. Wipe out the first 5 parttiions. (450MB, 100MB, 16MB, C Drive, 480MB)
2. Fresh install Windows 10
3. Restore C drive from backup image, run fix boot problems
4. repeat step 5 from OPTION 1 above.