Windows 10 Recovery Loop

Wideload44 · 05 Jan 2018

My fiance and I have had our computer for about 3 years now. It's never given us any problems at all. We don't download any content that we believe might be malware and we typically stay away from infectious sites, but we turned it on today and this message appeared: "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC". We know that the problem is not uncommon and that there are many ways to go about solving the issue, so we attempted almost all of them that this webpage offered: Fix: Windows 10 Automatic Repair Couldnâ€™t Repair Your PC
We tried all of the command prompt solutions but we couldn't get anywhere. We couldn't get the system to wipe clean either. We have a Logitech mouse and keyboard, someone said that the brand could cause problems so we unplugged them but it didn't resolve anything. Can anyone offer any advice?

zbook · 05 Jan 2018

Please update the system specs in the "My Computer" section:

How To Fill Out Your System Specs
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In the left corner below in your post you find 'My System Specs'.
After clicking it you can find a link a little below that says 'Update your System Spec', click on this link to get to the page where you can fill in your system specs.
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Include PSU. cooler, case, peripherals and anything attached to the computer by wired or wireless (mouse, keyboard, headset, printer, xbox, etc.)

1) Create a bootable windows 10 iso:
Download Windows 10
2) Find the keyboard key to boot to the flash drive:
List of PC brands with their corresponding hot-keys
If it is a custom computer you can temporarily change the bios boot order to boot to the external flash hard drive.
3) It may take 5 - 10 minutes while the iso loads while viewing the windows icon
4) Select the language, time, currency, and keyboard > click next
5) Do not click install as this in the method for a clean install. Instead in the left lower corner click on repair your computer.
6) click on start up repair (it is expected to fail)
7) click on system restore (it is expected to fail)
8) click on command prompt > Administrator: X:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe > X:\Sources>
9) type: bcdedit | find "osdevice"
This may display partition=C: (please post into the thread what is seen)(this drive letter will be used in the scannow command)
10) bootrec /scanos
This may display:
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 0
The operation completed successfully
11) bootrec /fixmbr
This may display:
The operation completed successfully
12) bootrec /fixboot
This may display
The operation completed successfully
13) bootrec /rebuildbcd
This may display:
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 0
The operation completed successfully
14) sfc /scannow /offbootdir=[DRIVELETTER]:\ /offwindir=[DRIVELETTER]:\windowsSubstitute the drive letter you noted earlier for [DRIVELETTER]. There should be no square brackets in the command (image below).
15) type: D:
type: dir
16) type: C:
type: dir
Report into the thread which drive displayed each: windows, users, program files, EFI, boot, setup.exe
17) chkdsk /f
It may display:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N)
18) type: y
If possible please use a camera or smart phone camera to take a picture of the above results and post images into the thread (the results may wash off the windows so please take pictures as you progress)
19) reboot
20) if the above works then make a backup image using Macrium:
Macrium Software | Macrium Reflect Free
21) if the above fails then will consider a registry backup repair.