Are you saying the PC won't boot to the desktop at all now?
Did you ever update from a previous OS, eg Win 7 > Win 10, or update to a newer build of Win 10? Either of those might prevent the OS recovery from working.
BTW: If you use that OS recovery option, will it wipe the drive and erase all your personal files and installed apps?
You can try to launch the Windows auto-repair environment. Power PC on and when you see the Dell splash screen, force the PC to shut down by pressing/holding the power button. As soon as it shuts off, power on again and repeat the forced shutoff. After the 3rd on/off and then on again, it should launch the auto-repair. Follow the prompts...
there are 2 recoveries, one is DELLS and the other is part of W10, you'd see that if you installed w10 fresh from MS direct and then it failed, the 3 FAIL RULE works. it can even work after jerking out GPU card before the driver 1st/.. then with this running the MS recovery, booting it more times, can also cure it, even 6 times !!!!!
and the other is part of windows 10
if you fail to boot w10 the 3rd time (do so) the magic MS recovery goes active at the 3 fail and does self repair.
do that first.
the dell recovery can be dead. easy, if partitions for are go, or messed up,.
the MAGIC MS recovery is the replacement for now gone F8 safe mode, its ALL DIFFERENT NOW.
you can also turn off fast boot, (google how) and recover a PC, easy , forcing SUPER SECRET SAFE MODE.
RoHe
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February 22nd, 2020 18:00
Are you saying the PC won't boot to the desktop at all now?
Did you ever update from a previous OS, eg Win 7 > Win 10, or update to a newer build of Win 10? Either of those might prevent the OS recovery from working.
BTW: If you use that OS recovery option, will it wipe the drive and erase all your personal files and installed apps?
You can try to launch the Windows auto-repair environment. Power PC on and when you see the Dell splash screen, force the PC to shut down by pressing/holding the power button. As soon as it shuts off, power on again and repeat the forced shutoff. After the 3rd on/off and then on again, it should launch the auto-repair. Follow the prompts...
savvy2
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February 23rd, 2020 09:00
there are 2 recoveries, one is DELLS and the other is part of W10, you'd see that if you installed w10 fresh from MS direct and then it failed, the 3 FAIL RULE works. it can even work after jerking out GPU card before the driver 1st/.. then with this running the MS recovery, booting it more times, can also cure it, even 6 times !!!!!
and the other is part of windows 10
if you fail to boot w10 the 3rd time (do so) the magic MS recovery goes active at the 3 fail and does self repair.
do that first.
the dell recovery can be dead. easy, if partitions for are go, or messed up,.
the MAGIC MS recovery is the replacement for now gone F8 safe mode, its ALL DIFFERENT NOW.
you can also turn off fast boot, (google how) and recover a PC, easy , forcing SUPER SECRET SAFE MODE.
speedstep
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February 23rd, 2020 13:00
Note, recovery does not work if the drives are corrupted or physically bad.