Windows 10: What does HDD Recovery on the boot menu do?

Maybe I am asking my question wrong. I am seriously just trying to get to the C drive on my laptop and want to know if I can get there via the boot menu that is on my screen right now. I cannot access my computer any other way and have no access to any other computer.


What will happen to my machine if I select HDD Recovery? will I lose everything on my C drive? Thanks for short answers.

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Laptop no longer booting from HDD or recovery USB


According to this link: Booting to the Boot Menu and BIOS
Your laptop use F2 to access BIOS and F12 to access Boot Menu.

It will take a while to boot. Sometimes several minutes, Did you wait long enough ?

HBCD only works with MBR disk type and will not recognize GPT disk.

If still cannot boot from Recovery disk. Use your friend's computer and download Macrium Rescue disk from my G-Drive: MacRescue.iso - Google Drive
The iso is: MacRescue.iso, about 258MB.
NOTE: Use F2 to access BIOS: enable Boot Menu, disable Secure Boot, disable CSM.

• Connect the USB to the PC. Use Disk Management (Win+R->Disk Management) to find out the disk # of the USB
• Open Admin Command Prompt (Win+R->Command Prompt (Admin) and type:
  diskpart
  select disk # =====> where # is the disk number from step 1
  clean
  convert MBR
  create partition primary
  format fs=fat32 quick
  assign letter=R
  active
  exit
  bootsect /nt60 R: ====> This will updates the master boot code for the USB
  exit
• Double click MacRescue.iso. This will mount the iso as a virtual DVD drive with a letter assigned, seen in This PC
• copy the content of the virtual DVD to R: (Your USB)
• Reboot your PC and keep tapping on F12 to access boot menu then select the usb with UEFI prefix to boot into GPT mode
• Once booted. From the Macrium screen, click on Fix Windows Boot problems and follow the screen to complete
  
  
  
• Reboot your PC.

NOTE: If still does not boot then the problem is in the C drive, System file(s) corrupted. You would need to boot from the Windows Installation disk to perform custom upgrade. Use step 2 above to create a bootable Windows Installation. Don't use Rufus.

 

No startup boot menu

Hello Kimoefat,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

As an initial recommendation, I would suggest you to access the System configuration utility and check if the Operating System installation path for Ubuntu exists. To do so, follow the below steps.

• Type msconfig in the search bar and select System Configuration from the search results.
• Select the boot tab in the System configuration console to check if the installation path for Ubuntu exists.

If it exists, next logical step is to check if the boot menu time out has been set to 0, which results in Boot menu not showing up.

The boot menu time-out determines how long the boot menu is displayed before the default boot entry is loaded. It is calibrated in seconds. To change the boot menu time-out, use the Bootcfg
/timeout switch. Valid values are from 0 through 999. You cannot use Bootcfg to set an indefinite time-out.

You can run the following Run command line to set the boot menu time-out accordingly. To do so, follow the below steps.

• 
  Press Windows key + X, select
  Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt
  
• 
  Type in the following command: bootcfg /timeout 10
  
  timeout 10 will set the time frame to 10 seconds
  

However, if the Boot path for Ubuntu does not exist in the boot menu of System Configuration utility, I would suggest you to check if the Ubuntu is overridden by the Windows installation or if the Ubuntu installation files are corrupted.

Hope the above information is helpful. If you need further information, feel free to write to us and we would be happy to help you.

Thank You.

 

Changing boot hdd

I downloaded PartitionMagic8.0, but the partition i want to make is not bootable.
So the system boots from the old, loud hdd, and when i unplug the old, it doesnt boot.
Any advice or suggestions how to change boot hdd without reinstalling Winxp?