Step 3: On the Choose an option screen, click Troubleshoot. If BIOS settings are looking good, your USB recovery drive is likely corrupted or not working properly. Check BIOS settings again to make sure that it’s configured to boot from USB. NOTE: If you are not getting the Choose your keyboard layout screen, it’s likely because your PC is not booting from the connected USB recovery drive. If you cannot see your keyboard layout in the list, click See more keyboard layouts option.

In a few moments, you will see the Choose your keyboard layout screen. Step 1: Connect your previously prepared Windows 10 recovery drive to your PC and make necessary changes to the BIOS to boot from the USB drive. IMPORTANT: Reinstalling Windows 10 in this way will remove all data from your system drive, including your personal files, apps installed from Store, desktop programs, device drivers, and system settings. NOTE 3: You cannot reinstall Windows 10 from recovery drive if you have not selected “ Back up system files to the recovery drive” option while preparing your Windows 10 recovery drive. If there is no dedicated recovery partition (even though your PC came preinstalled with Windows 8/8.1 and you upgraded to Windows 10), Windows 10 will be reinstalled. NOTE 2: If your PC came preinstalled with Windows 8/8.1 and a dedicated recovery partition, reinstalling from the recovery drive will restore the Windows version that came preinstalled (Windows 8/8.1 in this case).

That said, we advise you to link Windows 10 license to your Microsoft account for piece of mind. You can refer to our reinstall Windows 10 without losing activation article for more details. NOTE 1: If your Windows 10 install was activated before the reinstall, your copy of Windows 10 will be automatically activated after the reinstall as soon as your PC is connected to the internet. The recovery drive can be used to troubleshoot Windows 10 startup and other issues, restore Windows 10 to an earlier date, restore Windows 10 using an image, reset and reinstall Windows 10. You are aware that Windows 10 allows you to create a USB recovery drive.

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