System Repair Disc Not Bootable in Win10

Anonymous
2020-07-11T09:42:19+00:00

I am running Win 10 Pro 64bit version 1909. I used Control Panel, System and Security, Backup and Restore (Windows 7) to create a system repair disc. That worked fine, no error messages, until I went to use it. I tried to boot my pc from the CD drive where the repair disc was inserted but got an error message, non system disc or words to that effect. I had done this previously with Win7 without any problem. Any thoughts as to why the same process is not working in Win10?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-14T02:53:02+00:00

    I don't see anything like what is displayed in your image. All I get when I boot is a message in the lower left corner of the screen that states, press ESC key to enter Startup menu. From there I have a few options, one of which is the BIOS order and specs. Sometimes the CD/DVD drive is displayed and sometimes not. I can boot from a Win7 system repair disk. It starts to go through the motions  but of course it ends up going nowhere because I have Win10 on my machine. The only Win10 installation media I have is an ISO file on DVD. If I'm suppose to be able to boot from it, well I can't.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-14T01:56:07+00:00

    Hi,

    I would be interested to know if you can even boot with Windows 10 installation media on a DVD to do a clean install in the first place.. If you are having hardware issues with your CD\DVD drive, you will have issues booting with it regardless the name of the media..

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-14T01:48:36+00:00

    Hi,

    If you look at the bottom of the manufacturer's screen when you boot, in addition to the hotkey that is provided to enter Bios, you should see a couple more... One should specifically say something like "Boot Options", "Boot Menu", or similar...

    You would then end up at a screen similar to this... Your CDROM, or whatever your machine calls it, should be visible regardless of whether their is a disk in the drive or not..

    Out of curiosity... Do you still have a Repair CD for Windows 7 ? If you do, try to boot with it... Or any other known good bootable CD.. maybe your Windows 10 installation media if it is already on a DVD..

    What type of mess are you in that you think may require a reinstallation of Windows ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-14T01:45:59+00:00

    This is really getting down into the weeds. Would a clean install from an ISO file clean this up and resolve the system repair disk mystery?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-07-14T01:23:33+00:00

    That's precisely the problem. I can't boot from the system repair disk. The mystery continues. As for the CD/DVD drive not showing up in BIOS, I think that's more of an operator error than a system error. I found that I had to put a disk in the drive before I interrupted the boot sequence. You lost me on the One Time boot selection. I've already used the Create Media Tool to generate an ISO file. I'm thinking I may have to do a clean install to have any hope of getting out of this mess.

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