After a month from the release of Windows 10, almost 1000 million people have already updated their computer, with a spread like never before for Microsoft (also because never before had released Windows as a free update ). Once Windows 10 is installed, however, you must not make the mistake that has certainly been made in the past of remaining without a life preserver, that is without a recovery and repair disk in case things should go wrong. Windows 10 greatly improves the recovery functions, inheriting from Windows 8 the function of resetting the system without deleting the data saved in the hard disk. To be calm and be prepared to solve any type of problem, however, you must also prepare a recovery or repair disk, to be used to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch or to correct errors that prevent the computer from starting.
System Restore
If your computer has problems but starts up, if the errors were caused by some program or driver installed, you can try the system restore mode. In Windows 10 this is disabled by default so system restore must be enabled .Reset PC
If it doesn't work, but the computer still turns on correctly, you can also use the Reset PC function.This can be found in Settings -> Update and Security> Recovery> Reset PC .
In practice we proceed to reinstall Windows 10 with the option to keep all the files or to delete everything.
In another article, the detailed guide on how to reset Windows 10 and what it means .
Another option is the Windows 10 Refresh tool to clean up your PC of installed programs .
If Windows 10 was installed as an update to Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 and if 30 days have not yet passed, you can use the option to return to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 .
If the PC does not start
If Windows can't load, however, things get more complicated.
In the event that the computer starts, Windows loads by making the circle appear spinning, but then fails to get to the desktop, it is possible, as seen in another article, to open the recovery console of Windows 10. In this particular console there are some tools to repair Windows 10 including the automatic one to repair the boot, the system restore, the command prompt and then also the button that resets the PC.
If you are unable to get the recovery console to work, you can use the installation disc that we must now prepare before something goes wrong (or using another computer).
Therefore, you need to download Windows 10 to burn the installation files on a DVD or put it on a USB stick.
To do this, go to the Microsoft download page and download the download and support creation tool. Launch the tool and choose to create an installation disc for another computer. Then choose the language, version and architecture of the processor and create the USB stick.
In the case you can also download Windows 10 with direct link of the ISO file to be burned on a DVD through a tool like Rufus.
In this way, if the PC does not restart because full of errors, you can proceed with the repair options of the installation disk.
You can then boot your computer from disk or USB stick using the one where the Windows 10 installation files are.
Instead of pressing the button to install Windows 10, you have to click the link below Repair PC to find the reset function, that is Reset PC .
From the window you can also open the advanced settings to find other ways of repair and troubleshooting included on the Windows 10 installation disc:
1) System Restore that works if it was active.
2) Image recovery
This option works if a recovery disk was created as we will see in the next paragraph.
3) Boot Repair, to be used if Windows 10 fails to boot the PC.
4) Command prompt, to repair Windows 10 manually, only for expert users.
5) Open the boot settings
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Conclusions
To be prepared in the event of errors and startup problems of Windows 10 it is worth immediately to create a recovery disk, to be used with the second option of advanced settings.To find this function you need to write " Create recovery drive " on the search bar.
You will need to use a USB stick with at least 4 GB of space or 8 GB for 64 bit systems.
Needless to say, in the Windows 10 settings, in the update and security section, it is very important to activate the automatic backup function on a secondary disk.
Finally, if you do not have a USB stick or a disk to back up, you can take advantage of the free Aomei Onekey Recovery program to make a backup of Windows 10, files and programs on a disk partition, on an unallocated space at least 30 GB.
However, this backup will be lost if the disk where Windows is located breaks.
