Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to eliminate this feature.Ĭreating a recovery drive requires another Windows 10 computer and a USB drive with at least 512MB of storage. The recovery drive contains the Windows 10 recovery environment-which used to be accessible by tapping F8 on boot. If you cannot enter Safe mode, you will need to create a Windows 10 USB recovery drive. Related: Windows Troubleshooting for Dummies Method 2: Safe Mode with a Windows 10 Recovery Drive Once the Windows Recovery menu appears, do the following:įrom the Choose an option recovery window, choose Troubleshoot, then Advanced options, and then Startup Settings.įrom Startup Settings, you can reboot the computer into Safe mode, either with the internet-enabled or disabled. However, you can force the computer to enter Safe Mode by interrupting the boot process three times in a row, which automatically triggers Windows Recovery. Some unbootable computers freeze on the Windows splash screen. Method 1: Enter Safe Mode From Windows Recovery There are two relatively easy ways to get into it. If your computer doesn't boot, you might have problems entering Safe Mode. It's not always clear what processes run in Safe Mode, but experience has taught me it's an effective and easy fix. The weird thing is, sometimes starting the computer in Safe Mode can fix boot problems. The modified boot process can bypass driver and software problems. It is an alternative boot scheme that starts your computer with a minimum of software. The easiest fix for Windows 10 boot problems is Safe Mode. Our advice is to start with the easiest fixes and, in order, move to the harder ones. The trick is knowing which tools to use first. There's a huge number of fixes out there. However, I didn't try booting a DVD in the computer that the other test drive came out of, I'll do that later today.Windows 10 won't boot? Don't despair if your computer won't start. It wouldn't be the DVD rom drive would it? I did try another drive and had the same results. I guess it's possible that this motherboard doesn't allow booting from a DVD, but I still think that I might be missing something. If I can't figure out a solution to my DVD boot problem, I'll have to try something like this:īoot and Install Windows from a USB thumb drive It's a good quality Gigabyte board, and judging from this product page, it came out in 2004.
That might be the answer to my question, however, this motherboard is still pretty current technology. However, this closely related post helped me realize that I can boot off a bootable CD (WinXP), just not a DVD (Win7) I'm trying to load Win7 on it and I thought there was something wrong because it wouldn't boot off a bootable disc, even though I setup the BIOS boot settings properly (I've done this sort of thing a million times). My friend gave me his old computer that used to have WinXP on it.
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