[PREMIUM] – When your PC decides to take a crap on you, preparation is key to getting yourself out of a jam without losing your data. Part of that preparation is to have ways to boot the PC when you cannot do so normally.

In this article, we will give you a variety of options for creating a bootable recovery disc so that you can boot your PC which is not otherwise booting up. You’ll be able to then use the disc to get access to your files or run diagnostic utilities to rescue your machine.

In the old days, you could create a special floppy diskette to boot your computer. Windows even had a way to walk you through creating that book disk. But, today, hardly anybody even has floppy drives anymore. So, we need to deal with discs (as in CDs or DVDs). Not only that, but Windows no longer includes a built-in way to create a bootable disc.

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