Recovery missing options

Question

There are several options missing in WinRE for me, including startup settings and reset this PC. It also asks me for the keyboard language every time I enter WinRE.

I have since found out about BootIM.exe and how similar it is to WinRE so have ran it in an administrative command prompt and all settings are in there, including startup settings.

I was just wondering does anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

BootIM.exe is from Microsoft. It’s preinstalled and is similar to WinRE. I ran it using an administrative command prompt and all options are in there including startup settings.

Yes I’ve had upgrade problems twice now, fixed by an in place upgrade with an ISO and USB. It’s just very strange why options are missing in WinRE, like startup settings. It also asks me for the language every time, which it doesn’t do on my laptop.

Windows has created a second recovery partition so maybe that’s messing with things having 2 recovery partitions.

Answer 2

Just a quick question, when using the third party boot utility, is that one of your options on your boot devices menu?

Your BCD store looks normal so I will warn you that we have had folks that altered the default boot configuration and ended up having upgrade problems, so be careful.

Answer 3

To return to normal boot open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste:

bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

If there still are problems with shift + restart consider an in place upgrade repair.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/repair-install-windows-11-with-an-in-place-upgrade.418/

Answer 4

Hello,

Thanks for the reply, here are those pictures. Booting into Safe Mode using bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal is working with no problems.

Answer 5

These are some trial and error steps:

Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste:

bcdedit

reagentc / info

bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal

Post images or share links displaying the commands with results.

reboot > post images or share links