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 Windows 10 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. 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. Anyway, the
tool will download, as you can see down the bottom of the screen,
and after it's finished downloading then open it. You'll see the "What do you want to do"
screen. On this screen, click "Create installation media
for another PC" and click Next. Now choose your preferred language, I'll select United
States English; then select your edition. So if the computer you're trying to fix has
Windows 10 Home on it, then set this to the Home version, and if you have the Pro version,
select Pro. Now to make the right decision under the Architecture drop-down, you need
to be familiar with the version of Windows that's
installed on your computer. I'd just select the 64-bit version because it'll probably
be correct.
Now you can choose which media to create your recovery disk on. 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. You'll be prompted with a folder in which
to save the ISO file, so I'll name the ISO file, I've
just named it Windows 10, and 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. So you just wait a little while, it's got
nearly up to 50% now, and it will eventually finish. After the operating system has been
downloaded, it will verify the download, which might take
a little while as well; and then it will do a process called creating Windows
10 media, which essentially means that it will create the ISO file in the folder you
specified earlier.
After this process is done, it will come up with this screen. You would normally be able
to click on this link to open the DVD burner. But it turns out there
was a bit of a problem with the tool on my PC, and it came up with this strange error.
So the other way you can do it is to click on the path to the ISO file,
which is directly above the Open DVD Burner link, and then it will open a Windows Explorer
window with the ISO file highlighted. Right click on it and click
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 and boot from it.
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. So you might be able to get back to Windows 7 or 8.1.
Hey, please subscribe if this video helped you out, I'd really appreciate it. I'm HandyAndy
and thank you so much for watching!