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This term comes from the phrase, pulling yourself up from your bootstrap.
What is booting?
Is a bootable DVD with Windows repair tools that can start the system and fix problems
What is a system repair disc?
Enter shutdown /r /o. The /r parameter instructs the computer to restart, and the /o parameter opens Windows RE after the restart.
What is a method to open Windows RE?
After you have made reasonable efforts to repair a Windows installation, your next option is to do this step.
What is to reinstall Windows?
Error messages featuring white text on a black screen generally mean there is an issue with this.
What is hardware?
This term refers to turning power on with the on/off switch.
What is a hard boot or cold boot?
Is a bootable USB flash drive that can access Windows repair tools; in addition to holding an OEM recovery partition, it is handy when you need to repair a computer that doesn’t have an optical drive.
What is a recovery drive?
Is a built-in diagnostic and repair tool.
What is Startup Repair?
The meaning of the acronym PXE.
What is Preboot eXecution Environment?
The first step in troubleshooting.
What is identify the problem?
BIOS looks to the partition table in this item to locate the active partition.
What is the MBR?
If you include the system files on the recovery drive, you have the option of reinstalling Windows from this item.
What is a recovery drive?
This tool moves system boot logs from the failing computer to another computer for evaluation.
What is debugging (press 4 or F4)?
System image recovery, sometimes called this.
What is a reimage?
After establishing a theory of probable cause, you must do this.
What is test your theory?
This holds the Windows Boot Manager, BCD, and other supporting files. For Windows, the Boot Manager is Bootmgfw.efi and is stored in \EFI\Microsoft\Boot. A backup copy of Bootmgfw.efi is at \EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi.
What is the System Partition?
A repair disk can support two types of CPU architecture.
What are 32-bit and 64-bit?
Use this option when the video settings don’t allow you to see the screen well enough to fix a bad setting (for example, black fonts on a black background or a corrupted video driver)
What is to enable low-resolution video (press 3 or F3)?
The firmware you would need to access to enable PXE support.
What is BIOS/UEFI?
No OS found, A disk read error occurred, Invalid boot disk, Hard drive not found, Disk boot failure, No boot device found are examples of what?
What are error messages?
Responsible for getting a system up and going and finding an OS to load.
What are BIOS/UEFI?
A command used to manually configure the Boot Configuration Data
What is bcedit?
Use this option when you need access to the network to solve the problem.
What is enable safe mode (press 5 or F5)?
The selection in Windows RE where you can find the System Image Recovery option.
What is the “Advanced options” screen?
After successfully troubleshooting an issue you should do this.
What is document your findings?