With my UEFI BIOS fast-startup and my SSD, the old Shift+F8 trick no longer works to access the advanced startup options or Repair menu.
I DO NOT need this information urgently, but I want to be better prepared for when it does, as I've had to use these tools before, but my old Asus FX990 and HDD were able to access them with Shift+F8.
How can I access the Advanced Startup Options screen, or the Repair Menus from boot if I cannot access the CMD, a disc or flash drive copy of Windows, or Windows, and Windows 8.1 doesn't recognize that it is unable to start and doesn't automatically give me the option to enter the Repair Menu?
Basically, how can I manually enter the Advanced Startup or Repair menus from boot without using Shift+F8 (thanks to UEFI and SSD), from within windows, or from a CMD screen?
(some screens of some menus and terms I'm referencing are in here for visual aid: https://www.winhelp.us/repair-your-computer-in-windows-8.html)
This article doesn't leave me many options, it says I can only access them with Shift+F8, through Windows itself, or using CMD commands (which cannot be accessed using a corrupt windows without reaching the advanced startup menu anyways)
Again, not in a crisis situation, but would love if someone could teach me how I could access these menus in a dire situation.
Reasoning/storytime: AMD driver 14.3 actually locked me out of windows by glitching my entire displays screens with white and pink boxes, like 450% zoom, and only occasional flashes of my still live desktop. it made things unusable Even using an Nvidia GPU and intel graphics were glitched by the driver... recovery spots were for some reason all gone, and manually forcing my way to the automatic Repair Menu since Windows was technically booting, so it didn't send me to the repair menu automatically. (the separate menu, not just the little auto repair option in Advanced Startup, that option nothing compared to the real Repair Menu's process that fixed the issue)
Sure enough it wiped the driver, fixing the issue and allowed me to install the stable driver. Only AMD driver I've ever had issues with after 40+ drivers by the way, so NO AMD jokes ( it turns out it wasn't the driver itself, it was old hidden residual AMD files interfering and causing the bug)Nvidia's drivers have done far worse to my machines driverside in the past (not to mention all the bloatware).
I DO NOT need this information urgently, but I want to be better prepared for when it does, as I've had to use these tools before, but my old Asus FX990 and HDD were able to access them with Shift+F8.
How can I access the Advanced Startup Options screen, or the Repair Menus from boot if I cannot access the CMD, a disc or flash drive copy of Windows, or Windows, and Windows 8.1 doesn't recognize that it is unable to start and doesn't automatically give me the option to enter the Repair Menu?
Basically, how can I manually enter the Advanced Startup or Repair menus from boot without using Shift+F8 (thanks to UEFI and SSD), from within windows, or from a CMD screen?
(some screens of some menus and terms I'm referencing are in here for visual aid: https://www.winhelp.us/repair-your-computer-in-windows-8.html)
This article doesn't leave me many options, it says I can only access them with Shift+F8, through Windows itself, or using CMD commands (which cannot be accessed using a corrupt windows without reaching the advanced startup menu anyways)
Again, not in a crisis situation, but would love if someone could teach me how I could access these menus in a dire situation.
Reasoning/storytime: AMD driver 14.3 actually locked me out of windows by glitching my entire displays screens with white and pink boxes, like 450% zoom, and only occasional flashes of my still live desktop. it made things unusable Even using an Nvidia GPU and intel graphics were glitched by the driver... recovery spots were for some reason all gone, and manually forcing my way to the automatic Repair Menu since Windows was technically booting, so it didn't send me to the repair menu automatically. (the separate menu, not just the little auto repair option in Advanced Startup, that option nothing compared to the real Repair Menu's process that fixed the issue)
Sure enough it wiped the driver, fixing the issue and allowed me to install the stable driver. Only AMD driver I've ever had issues with after 40+ drivers by the way, so NO AMD jokes ( it turns out it wasn't the driver itself, it was old hidden residual AMD files interfering and causing the bug)Nvidia's drivers have done far worse to my machines driverside in the past (not to mention all the bloatware).
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