Windows 10: Windows UEFI in advanced startup.

ArnoSW · May 19, 2020

I go into advanced startup, I restart, I go to troubleshoot, and to my UEFI settings. It then proceeds to say to restart to change UEFI settings, and when I do so, my screen goes black then appears to stay black. I've taken my time and waited to see if anything would happen, but nothing did. Though my PC was still on, as were my keyboard and mouse which were still connected and lit up.

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Avedis53 · May 19, 2020

Can't get GPU-Z to start with Windows 8.1 startup

You can add a -minimized startup option.
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I'm not sure how to do that. Could you list the steps for a noob?

feelulive · May 19, 2020

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

when i did 1. 2. 3. steps i checked and problem was SOLVED
but after 4. 5. 6. 7. steps i checked and no advanced startup options again

Make a complete backup image of your current HD including all partitions to an external HD using macrium reflect . Once done, disconnect all USB devices from the PC. Assuming now you only have one HD connected to the PC which you will be installing Windows.
IMPORTANT: Also create a Macrium Rescue disk to boot from later on.

Boot up your Windows installation USB/DVD. On the first screen, Hold SHIFT + F10 to open Command Windows then type:
Diskpart
select disk 0
clean
exit

Click Next, Choose Custom, select the unallocated partition then click Next (Do not format), when asked for Product ID key, click on "Skip this step"/"Do it later". Continue the Installation.

Once done. With the external HD connected, Reboot your PC with the Macrium Rescue disk, select the image that you created in step 1 as the Source.

Select your current HD/SSD as Destination disk

Restore only C: Drive to it. ie. overwrite the new C: Drive with your backup C: Drive.
NOTE: See screen shot on how to perform this step

Disconnect all the external devices. Reboot. Windows should perform a startup repair.

till 4. step there was no windows 10 key activeted and problem vas solved
but after step 7 i checked key and it was not the same which i purchased, why did that change? i activated purchased key again.
so is the problem to be a windows 10 key on my pc?
or do some drivers prevent advancedstartup options?

feelulive · May 19, 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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