Artfuldodger
Senior Member
I had a problem booting from my hard drive earlier today. Maybe it was just related to an update. Sometimes when my computer updates Windows it gets hung up and I have to do a manual restart.
This wasn't the case this morning. I had trouble printing an Open Office document so I thought a startup might help. It wouldn't boot up. It would go past the bios screen but never start windows. Maybe it was installing updates. I wish if that was what it was doing it would say so. I guess it can't because it is in the middle of booting and can't tell me it is installing updates.
Anyway I put in an old Windows 7 boot disk and it started up to my regular Windows 10 screen. Maybe it didn't boot from the Windows 7 disk after all. It could have just been a coincidence.
But it did scare me enough to want some type of recovery or boot disk. Maybe something simple to get me to a Safe-mode screen. I would prefer a DVD as to a USB device. I might could find a DVD easier than a thumb drive.
Any advice? Something free perhaps?
I have the Windows 10 Pro 64-bit operating system.
This wasn't the case this morning. I had trouble printing an Open Office document so I thought a startup might help. It wouldn't boot up. It would go past the bios screen but never start windows. Maybe it was installing updates. I wish if that was what it was doing it would say so. I guess it can't because it is in the middle of booting and can't tell me it is installing updates.
Anyway I put in an old Windows 7 boot disk and it started up to my regular Windows 10 screen. Maybe it didn't boot from the Windows 7 disk after all. It could have just been a coincidence.
But it did scare me enough to want some type of recovery or boot disk. Maybe something simple to get me to a Safe-mode screen. I would prefer a DVD as to a USB device. I might could find a DVD easier than a thumb drive.
Any advice? Something free perhaps?
I have the Windows 10 Pro 64-bit operating system.