Windows 10: Dumb Question #2 - How do I access the Boot Menu?

Okay - sounds simple.

I've followed the procedure to use Macrium Reflect to create a rescue partition as per Kari's post - see link: Macrium Reflect Rescue Partition by Kari.

In it, section 2.6 he says You can now select to boot to Macrium Rescue from Windows Boot Menu:





... however, I can't seem to get to the Boot Menu to check that it has a Macrium Rescue option.

I've tried both holding the shift key down whilst restarting and navigating to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced Startup > Restart Now.

How can I access the Boot Menu?

Cheers

Art

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Dumb Question #2 - How do I access the Boot Menu?

I will have a crack at that tomorrow.

Going to climb the wooden hills to Bedfordshire!

Art

- - - Updated - - -

Okay - so I checked both msconfig and bcdedit through Command Prompt.

No entry for Macrium Rescue:









So I run the batch file again and get a single error (I also got this last night). Looking at it now, it appears to be the line that specifies the ramdisk ...





... and the output:





... as there are 10 command lines and apart from the first, the rest successfully complete.

Now, when I look at bcdedit, I appear to have TWO entries in the Boot Menu - yay!





and msconfig agrees:





Now to restart the PC and see what I get.

[An aside: trying to find out the syntax of the Ramdisk commands and what the '/d' switch does but getting nothing from the web : ( ]

UPDATE: And now I get the choice (as per picture in post #1 this thread) - success!

Art

 

Dumb Question #2 - How do I access the Boot Menu?

I do indeed get what you included in your post:





However, booting the PC I don't get Kari's blue boot choice menu.

Is there anyting else I need to do to 'activate' this in any way?





Reading through the Macrium Reflect Help for Rescue Builder, it seems that(in my case) the check mark should be against the R: drive as the Macrium Reflect Rescue Media files are stored on a different volume from the System Disk.

Macrium Rescue is in R: drive (and contains the files copied from the .iso image):





Art

 

Dumb Question #2 - How do I access the Boot Menu?

Thank you TG!

I'm using v7 of Macrium Reflect - seems very 'user friendly'.

It seems to be sorted now. I spotted the 'Select Volume for Rescue Media File Storage' (see third picture in post #5 this thread ) and figured that had to be set to point to the Rescue Partition.

Only way I'll know for sure is if I need to use it I guess. I can't boot to the Rescue Partition to test it without it screwing up the ordinary (working properly) Windows Partition (or can I?)

As an aside, why is the suggestion made to hide the Rescue Partition - to stop some lunk-head deleting it?!

Art