Windows 10: Total system crash..no recovery options work..except restore image

A few months ago my system started crashing, randomly, and badly.None of the system fixes worked, win couldn’t find system restore, only thing that worked was restore from image.Up dated all drivers, graphic, motherboard, the latest from the websites.Forth restore image failed. Total fresh install of Win 11 pro.Didn’t happen for a month, till today.Not sure if latest win update got automatically installed overnight, h22 or something no way to check.Tried advanced recovery, uninstall latest update…failed.The only thing that I think I did different, was I used bitlocker, last thing yesterday t

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Windows 10 has totally crashed

Hi,



I realized your concern and will assist you to resolve the issue.



Before we proceed, I need more information to help you better.

• What exactly do you mean by Windows 10 has totally crashed?
• Are you not able to boot to Windows?
• Are you getting any error message?

If you’re able to boot to Windows then, I suggest you to perform System restore and check if it helps.

Follow the steps below.

• 
  In login screen at the bottom right corner select
  restart the system by press and hold Shift key.
  
• 
  Under choose an option select Troubleshooting.
  
• 
  Select advanced option.
  
• 
  Select System restore and check if it helps.
  

Refer this section “Restore from a system restore point”
in the below link and check if it helps.

Recovery options in Windows



Important Note: Restoring won’t affect your personal files, but it will remove apps, drivers and updates installed after the restore point was made.



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If I upgrade to windows 10 how will I be able to do a total system recovery ?

Here are a couple of options:

• Use your current recovery disk to restore Windows 7, then re-do the upgrade to Windows 10.
• After doing the upgrade to Windows 10, create an image of the upgraded system and store it on your external backup disk. Now check if the image is recognised by the system.

 

How to restore system image backup

Ryan,

Whilst I can find the tutorial for making a system image [Create a System Image], I cannot find one about restoring it at the moment so here are my own notes on the procedure - [I never see the message windows need to format the drive... so I am not sure where you are when you see that]

[Added later - There is an illustrated guide to restoring a system image in Restore Image on Computer - EightForums. The procedure seems to be the same and the illustrations should be helpful.]

1 Go to

• Settings,
• Update & security,
• Recovery,
• Under the Advanced startup heading, click on the button for Restart now.

2 This will take you into the onboard Windows recovery environment [WRE], a menu-driven environment -

• Troubleshoot,
• Advanced options,
• System image recover.

3 You will be rebooted into the System image recovery procedure -

• Log into an Admin account,
• Connect the drive containing the image,
• Accept the latest image identified by the system or Select a image,
• The rest is entirely menu driven.
• [Whilst there are some options that can be chosen, the defaults are normally off for all these and should be accepted.]

There are variations of this procedure such as starting the restoration from an installation disk, system repair disk or System recovery drive [see page 2 of this thread].

Denis