Windows 10: Windows 11 Repair 'Disk'

On Windows 7 - 10 from Control Panel one could make a repair 'disk'. This you could boot up the PC from and carry out repairs. You could also make an Image to re-install. However when Windows 10 came it became too large for a DVD. So it then allowed you to create these on a suitably large USB. And anyway many laptops don't come with CD players. And most people don't need CD and use USB. On Windows 11 from the System Back up when I go to make a repair disk it will only burn to a CD?? I have just made a DVD Windows 11 repair disk. I have a plug in DVD/CD player just in case I need it.

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I need a Windows 10 1709 repair disk!

1) Find a flash drive that you can format ( > or = 8 GB)
2) Create a bootable Windows 10 iso:
Download Windows 10
3) Insert the iso flash drive into any USB port
4) Boot to the iso using the applicable keyboard key:
List of PC brands with their corresponding hot-keys
For HP it is F9
Power on and repetitively click the F9 key
5) Select external USB hard drive
6) It may take 5 - 10 minutes for the iso to load while viewing the Microsoft Windows icon
7) Select language, time, currency, and keyboard or click next
8) Click troubleshoot
9) Click system restore
(Start with the oldest restore point and keep repeating up to the most recent restore point)
If system restore fails or if there are no restore points advance to the next step.
10) Click startup repair
If startup repair fails advance to the next step

11) Click command prompt > Administrator :\Windows\System32\cmd.exe > X:\Sources> type:
For all of these steps use a camera or smart phone camera to take pictures and post images into the thread:
12) c:
13) dir
14) d:
15) dir
16) bcdedit /enum
17) bcdedit | find "osdevice"
18) diskpart
19) list disk
20) list volume
21) select disk 0
22) list partition
23) select partition 1
24) detail partition
24) select partition 2
25) detail partition
26) select partition 3
27) detail partition
28) select partiton 4
29) if there are any additional partitions on disk 0 continue in the same fashion
30) select disk 1
31) list partition
32) exit
33) bootrec /fixmbr
34) bootrec /fixboot
35) bootrec /scanos
36) bootrec /rebuildbcd
37) chkdsk /r C:
reboot
This may take many hours so plan to run overnight.

 

System repair disk DVD's that I created on Windows 11 PC's will not boot.

You would have to create a system image disk in Windows 11 and then attempt to make it bootable by using something like Image Burn.

I agree that this is not a very elegant solution. The fact that the system image disk is no longer bootable in Windows 11 severely decreases its usefulness.

Luckily, the Windows 11 iso downloadable from Microsoft is bootable and also contains repair tools.

The steps below are for installing an image you previously made. These steps work with DVD disks but it should work with a USB thumb drive as well.

1. Place the Windows 11 iso Operating System Disc that you downloaded from Microsoft in a DVD drive.
   
2. Boot and continuously tap the key till that will bring up the boot selection menu. For Asus motherboards, this is F8. When the ‘Please select boot drive’ screen comes up, select the UEFI entry with the DVD drive that contains your Operating System Disc. Press Enter.
   
3. When ‘Press any key to boot from CD or DVD’ comes up, press Enter. The Windows logo will appear.
   
4. When the ‘Install Now’ dialog box appears, click the ‘Repair Your Computer’ link in the bottom left hand corner.
   
5. Choose Troubleshoot>System Image Recovery>Windows 11.
   
6. When the message ‘Windows cannot find a system image on this computer’ comes up, place the last system image disc in your DVD drive and close the drive.
   
7. Click ‘Retry’.
   
8. Your computer will now search for an image. When it has found it, click ‘Next’.
   

At ‘Choose Additional Restore Options’ do not check ‘Format and repartition discs’. Click ‘Next’.

9. At ‘Reimage your computer’ click ‘Finish’.

10. Follow the screen instructions and insert the other system image discs as requested until the system desktop comes up.

The program will offer to burn a system repair disc. As mentioned above, the Windows 11 System Repair Disc is no longer bootable without alterations so do like Nancy said and just say no.

I hope this helps.

 

Windows 10 Advanced Options Menu to Repair

I would try the following steps in order:

1. Remove the laptop main battery for a few minutes - may reset something
2. Load BIOS defaults
3. Install Macrium Reflect Free on another PC, create a Reflect USB repair disk then use that disk to repair your laptop
4. Recover from backup if you have one
5. Perform a Windows 10 repair install - see instructions on this forum