System recovery not starting

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The recovery environment fails to launch when selected from the boot menu.

Symptoms
  • Black screen
  • Reboot to OS
  • Error message
Possible Causes
  • Corrupt recovery partition
  • Missing boot files
  • Hardware failure

Step-by-Step Fix

1

Use External Media

Boot from a USB recovery drive created on another PC.

2

Check Disk Health

Run diagnostics to ensure the drive isn't failing.

3

Rebuild BCD

Use command prompt to fix the boot configuration data.

When to See a Technician

If the recovery partition is gone, a clean install is the only option.

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