Windows 10: Windows 10 advanced startup does not show System Image Recovery

Dmitry Chirkov · Jan 22, 2020

Hello! I use Windows 10 November 2019 update. I need to restore Windows from a system image, but I can not do it. I openWindows 10 Settings menu, go to Update & recovery, go to Recovery, Advanced startup section, and click Restart now. When PC restarts, I go to Troubleshoot, Advanced Options, and there is no any sings of System image recovery. What should I do? How can I fix it? Thank you!

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StephenPlunkett · Jan 22, 2020

Windows 10 Recovery/Advanced Startup Options

My Windows 10 features the latest updates. My recovery/advanced startup screens, however, lacks both Startup Repair and System Image Recovery options. The second is peculiar as I use System Image Recovery and the control panel says it's working fine.
I've had this problem for at least a couple of months.

Bree · Jan 22, 2020

System image issues

Yes. If you can boot from the usb and get to Advanced Startup then you should see a Troubleshoot option. Click on it, then choose Advanced Options. There you should find System Image Recovery like this....

Now connect your external HDD with the system image on it then click System Image Recovery. You should then be at Option Four, Step 4 in this tutorial (you won't see steps 2 & 3 if you have booted from a recovery drive).

Troubleshoot Windows 10 failure to boot using Recovery Environment

feelulive · Jan 22, 2020

windows 10 no advanced-startup-options, so no startup settings

The Advanced Troubleshooting Menu runs from the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). The Windows Recovery Environment is normally contained in a 450MB recovery partition. The problem is that there either was not a proper recovery environment present, or that Windows 10 was not linked to it. The link to the WinRE is set with the reagentc command. reagentc /info will tell you the status of WinRE. reagentc /setreimage will create the link to the Recovery Environment, if there is a proper WinRE to link to in the Recovery Partition.

Doing the clean install on the hard drive should have created the proper Recovery Partition with the proper WinRE contained in it. However, the previous Windows install did not contain a reagentc link to it, so it still would not work after the old Windows was restored over the top of the clean install.

The next step is to get a screenshot of disk management, and a list of the partitions on the hard drive, either with a program like MiniTool Partition Wizard - or using diskpart commands to determine the actual partition number of the recovery partition so that it can be linked to with the reagentc /setreimage command.

The command should be:
reagentc /setreimage /path \\?GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition#\Recovery\WindowsRE

But you need to know the real partition # and you can't trust built-in Windows disk management because it will not show the hidden Microsoft Reserved Partition on GPT partitioned drives when booting in UEFI mode.
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