How to create Windows 10 Recovery Media/Disk/DVD (with Automatic Repair!)

Author: HandyAndy Tech Tips
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In this video, I'll show you how to fix Windows 10 problems by downloading and creating a Recovery Disk. You can boot from it and solve many common problems that might prevent your PC from starting. Here's a link to the website mentioned in the video: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 -- Please SUBSCRIBE to HandyAndy Tech Tips if you found this video helpful! -- PARTIAL VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hi, it's HandyAndy Tech Tips here, and today I'm going to show you how to create a Windows 10 recovery disk. This will help you diagnose, and hopefully fix, problems with your PC. So here's what you'll need. First, you'll need a Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 PC with an Internet connection and DVD burner. And secondly, you'll need a PC with Windows 10 that has a major problem that prevents it from booting; for example, the black screen of death. So the first thing you need to do is to log into your working PC and visit this website. It's a page on the Microsoft site that allows you to download a tool that creates installation media for Windows 10. Now I know what you're thinking: installation media? Why would I want that? Well, the Windows 10 install disc includes a feature called Automatic Repair, which should detect problems with your PC and fix them automatically. So please visit this site, the link is in the description. Once you've arrived at the site, scroll down and you'll see two links. Now you can either download either a 32-bit or 64-bit version of the tool used to create the installation media. The computer you're using to create the media probably has a 64-bit operating system on it, so if I were you, I'd download the 64-bit version of the tool, and if this doesn't work, then get the 32-bit version. Anyway, the tool will download, as you can see down the bottom of the screen, and after it's finished downloading then open it. Now after it's opened, you'll see the "What do you want to do" screen, select "Create installation media for another PC" and click Next. Now choose your preferred language, I'll select United States English; then select your edition. If you have Windows 10 Home on the computer you're trying to recover, set this to the Home version, and if you have the Pro version, select Pro. Now, under Architecture, select 32-bit if the PC you're trying to recover has 32-bit Windows 10, otherwise select 64-bit. Then click Next. Now you can choose which media to use. I'll select ISO file, as I don't have any USB sticks handy and my working computer and the PC I need to fix both have DVD drives. Now, after clicking Next, it will prompt you with a dialog box asking where you would like to save the ISO file. I've chosen a folder called, quite appropriately, ISO folder, so I'll click save. Now, Windows 10 will be downloaded from Microsoft's servers onto your computer. You might have to wait a little while: I waited for an hour with my 10Mbit/s web connection. After the operating system has been downloaded, it will verify the download, which might take a little while as well; and then it will create Windows 10 media, which essentially means that it will create the ISO file in the folder you specified. Now it's done, and you would normally be able to click on this link to open the ISO burner. But it came up with this strange error on my PC, so instead I clicked on the link to the path where the ISO file is stored. I then right clicked on the Windows 10 ISO file and clicked Burn to Disc. Now insert a blank DVD into your drive and click the Burn button, and wait about ten minutes. After the disc has finished burning, the drive should automatically eject. Remove the disc and go to your Windows 10 PC that has problems booting. Now what you want to do is insert the recovery disc into your Windows 10 PC - the one which has the problem - and boot from it. Now with old BIOS-based systems it used to be easy to boot from a DVD, but newer computers use UEFI, which makes the process a bit more difficult. Anyway, there are a variety of methods to use on UEFI systems and I'll put links to some of them in the description of this video. After booting from the DVD, your PC should display this screen. Windows 10 Automatic Repair will hopefully will diagnose your problems and fix them automatically. If it doesn't, then you might be presented with a screen like this. Click on Advanced Options and work your way through all of them; I'd probably click Startup repair first, and if that doesn't work, then you could try some of the others. System Restore would probably be the second most useful option, as it might allow you to restore to a point before you installed Windows 10 on your PC. Hey, please subscribe if this video helped you out, I'd really appreciate it. I'm HandyAndy and thank you so much for watching! -- How to create Windows 10 Recovery Media/Disk/DVD (with Automatic Repair!) NOTES: Had to re-upload because of some technical issues with the first upload. (1 Aug 2015)

Comments

  1. what if i accidentally deleted the file to connect to wifi😂😂
  2. im so sad my acer windows 10 laptop is in black screen of death fuck
  3. Can you do it with iPhone?
  4. still show need recovery tools
  5. Hey, dude so, there is no option for windows 10 pro on my windows 10 setup...would you know why? Sorry for taking up your time
  6. How large does the DVD need to be?
  7. My operating system was formatted will this work
  8. Only half way through the downloaded. But I'm very optimistic. You're a life saver. Earned a sub!!! 👍👍👍
  9. I had to do a few adjustments to the instructions but my computer is now running okay for the time being. Thanks bro.
  10. Hi i've tried this site "the link is in the description" it not working i can't see whre to download 32 or 64 bit version....help me, i don't find wesite
  11. Hey Andy, when tryign to dowload it to a usb it skips right to you need 8gb on your C: drive. Anyway I can change it so that it lets me choose which drive to download it onto? Its tryign to download to the one disk on my pc thats full. Lmao
  12. How exactly do I boot it with the usb/disc? Is there an option to do so or do I just insert it and turn on my pc?
  13. I don't have a working PC now what
  14. Need help immediately! I just opened that app for the windows update and it doesnt give me an option to install to an external hard drive. It wants me to free up space on my laptop, but all the space has been taken over by the OS I believe. How can I bring more space to my laptop or how can I install windows 10 to my usb????
  15. This looked like what I needed, so I downloaded this tool to an external hard drive. After downloading, I realized that it looked like the tool had reformated or otherwise partitioned my drive. I can't see any of my old files, my drive has been renamed, and instead of being 400+ gigs, it's only showing 32. I'm just a layman and am not exactly sure what happened. Is there a way I can get my files back (if they're really missing) or make them visible (if they're not missing/deleted)? Google led me in circles. :/
  16. Wondering if this same as repair disc I successfully made. Tried to make recovery discs and it said could not complete on second disc; the recovery discs were not made with media tool. Thanks mate good tutorial.
  17. dude can U help me plz my Acer laptop says in a blue box default boot device missing or failed insert recovery media and hit any key then select boot manger too choose a new boot device or to boot recovery media. the recovery is stored on the laptop I can't even login what do I do?
  18. what would you do if your drive crashed or something else that would necessitate you putting windows 10 on another computer?
  19. You can see if you have a 32 or 64 bit operating system by holding the windows button and then pressing the button "Pause Break".
  20. I HAVE A SOLUTION TO IF YOU DONT HAVE ANOTHER COMPUTER
    GO TO TASK MANAGER
    THAN TYPE CHROME.EXE
    CHROME WILL POP UP
    SEARCH FOR THIS VIDEO AND DOWNLOAD THE SHIT

    TADA!!!!