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    Member lbeachmike's Avatar
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    Help restoring broken Windows 10 installation

    I have a crashed Windows 10 installation, but it boots to the Windows splash screen. Then I get a black screen with the spinning dots before ever getting to the login screen.

    I have a Macrium backup from the morning before it stopped working.

    Is there any reason to try to repair the installation with tools like DISM and SFC before simply restoring from backup?

    Thanks.

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    Do you have a crashed installation or a crashed computer? The first would imply you had an empty hard drive and had issues while doing a new install.

    Do you eventually get logged into Windows? If so, I'd be overly cautious and make a new separate backup of important stuff before restoring the Macrium backup.
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