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Recovering from a failed Win10 Reset

Posted on November 22nd, 2020 at 21:10 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

LANGALIST

By Fred Langa

Win10’s cloud-based Resets are usually the fastest and easiest way to return a PC to a known-good, baseline state.

Major Reset failures are rare, but the worst-case scenarios can leave a PC completely unbootable. Here’s what to do when a reset misadventure strikes.

Plus: What’s with those weird two-headed USB connectors?

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.46.0 (2020-11-23).

AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Cloud-based refresh, USB connectors, Windows reset failures, WinRE
Getting out of a no-boot situation after installing Windows updates

Posted on February 11th, 2018 at 05:54 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

@MrBrian has posted a very important addition to the AskWoody Knowledge Base

AKB 2000009: Getting out of a no-boot situation after installing Windows updates

It’s a step-by-step, real world guide to using the Windows Recovery Environment. Might just save your tail one day.

Other Windows Recovery Environment, Windows Update, WinRE, WRE

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