Then your best option is to use the bootable Recovery Drive you should have created. If you haven't already created a Recovery Drive with USB, etc., then you'll try the next steps to create a bootable installation drive using the Media Creation tool.
You can also create a bootable USB or DVD on a separate PC to run a repair. A Windows 10 installation drive is very much like a Windows 10 recovery drive. The major differences are that the installation drive defaults to reinstalling Windows.
First, you’ll need to download the media creation tool. Once you have it, plug in your flash drive, run the tool, select Create installation media for another PC and follow the prompts.
When you're ready, boot from the USB drive and the Windows Setup screen will come up. On the second page of the wizard, ignore the big “Install now” button and click Repair your computer in the lower-left corner. That brings you to the options which are nearly identical to the Recovery Tool where you can repair your installation of Windows.
Hope this helps.
Grif
I am so stuck. Hoping maybe someone can help?
Ive searched the internet till I'm exhausted.
I was trying to go to safe mode on my Windows 10 "old Acer Travelmate". (holding the shift key and clicking on the restart button ).
But instead of entering safe mode, I ended up with a "wallpaper" and No option to the next step to log in to my desktop. (And consequently no Start Menu).
From this wallpaper page, I've only had the options to
1). completly power down and start it up fresh
2). Do the restart button
With both of those options above, Ive made many attempts to reboot while
-repeatedly clicking F8, (I believe this is for versions prior to windows 10)
-windows key and "1" and
-holding the shift key while rebooting.
All attempts just finding me back at the wallpaper where I began.
So stuck.
Even though I have a pretty recent backup, I made some huge changes to 2 companies's files along with my personal files.
I was cleaning it up to have a nice organized backup and put this laptop to storage. ![]()
I'm so hoping I can access it one more time.
Any help here would be soooo greatly appreciated!

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