System Repair Disc Not Bootable in Win10

Hi,

To start... The System Repair Disk must be the same version or newer than the Image being restored, if you are trying to restore an image.. This may still apply if you are attempting some other type of repair..

Do you remember seeing a "EFI" partition on your HDD with Windows ? You can look in Disk Management and check if needed.. This partition is used on UEFI Bios machines, and not Legacy..

There is a remote possibility that your machine switched from a Legacy installation on Windows 7 to a UEFI installation on Windows 10... How you create the installation media for Windows 10, and how you boot with it, can trigger this..

Regardless... When you boot your computer with the CD, hit the key for BOOT OPTIONS at the manufacturer's screen... Usually F9, F11, F12, Esc, but it varies by machine..

You may see your CD\DVD drive listed twice.. as a CD\DVD Drive or Optical Drive, and again as a "UEFI CD\DVD Drive" or "UEFI Optical Drive"... Try both if they exist..

Some machines do not support booting from a "UEFI CD\DVD Drive"...

Just as a note... Windows 10 Installation Media has a "REPAIR" option on the lower left of the Install screen.. This gives all the same options and tools as the Repair CD would.. Simply select Repair... Troubleshoot...

If necessary, you should be able to boot with the UEFI USB Flash Drive version of the Installation Media..

I used Control Panel, System and Security, Backup and Restore (Windows 7) pathway to create a system repair disc in Win10. Is that what you refer to as a recovery disk? I know how to determine the version of the operating system I'm using on the computer but how do you determine the version on the system repair disk? I don't know what you mean by Legacy and UEFI. This much I do know. My computer was purchased with Win7 installed on it. When support for Win7 expired in January 2020, I did a clean install on the same computer using a Win10 version 1607 ISO file that I downloaded from Microsoft. With Windows Updates applied since then, I am now at version 1909 of Win10.

The version of the Recovery disk and the version of the OS you are trying to use for the image are important.  You would need to be running the same version of each for the image to be successful.

There may be a possibility you could use a different version of the recovery media or install media, but you can't reimage an older version over a newer OS version unless you clean the drive first.

So, how did you make the Recovery DVD.  Is it a Win 10 created version?  Can we assume this is a Legacy install so UEFI is not used?

I would probably download the latest Win 10 build and burn that image to the DVD, if that is not what you are doing.  If you need an earlier version of the install media, that might be a little harder to find..

Edit:  If you used a DVD and it made more than one DVD, you may have to insert the last DVD to start the process..

Hello William

The only way I found is with 3rd party programs, the Microsoft 10 recovery drive is only possible by USB, here is a link:

https://www.ubackup.com/windows-10/create-windo....

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Hello and thank you for contacting us. My name is Angelo and I am an Independent Adviser on here.

please see this website:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/402685...

Regards

Angelo