You can let go of the keys when you see a screen similar to the screenshot below. Keep holding as your Mac boots, which may take a few moments depending on its specific configuration. To use Recovery Mode, reboot or start your Mac and hold the Command and R keys simultaneously on your keyboard as you see the iconic white Apple logo against a black screen. I know there's a way to get that key from my dead windows partition if I could boot up into it, but otherwise, I really need that key, and I'd prefer to not pay to get a new one.Starting with the release of macOS Lion in 2011, Macs have offered a Recovery Mode that users can access to diagnose hardware issues, restore Time Machine backups, manage hard drives, and even reinstall macOS itself. Except, I don't have my old install disk from years ago anymore, and since I don't have another PC accessible to me, I can't download an iso to burn since I don't have a key.
So, my next step was to nuke everything and reinstall windows. No safe mode or any variation thereof, and the startup fixing utility that I've started into a couple of times doesn't do the trick, and neither does restoring to a old restore point. Except this time, something somewhere went wrong and after chkdsk finished, I am no longer able to boot into windows at all. But this time, windows booted up into chkdsk, which, again, isn't much of an issue usually since this has always sorted itself out and I boot up just fine after chkdsk does its thing. You know, the ol' "turn it off and on again" solution.
This usually isn't much of an issue since i'm using an older 2011 macbook pro using bootcamp, and a restart solves the issue nearly 100% of the time. So, just recently, my computer (I should mention I was running under the windows bootcamp partition) was running slower than usual. So, before you disregard this thread and say "hey, buddy, shouldn't you be contacting Microsoft support about this sort of issue?" just know you'd be completely right if I hadn't already contacted them and being told that they can't do squat since my issue is on an apple machine.
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