Windows 10 preparing automatic repair

step1992 · 03 Jul 2020

I was playing yesterday when my PC crashed and I was forced to reboot with an hard shut down.
Since then the PC keep on rebooting, I tried to enter the safe mode by pressing ctrl+F8 but is not working while F11 just bring me to the MSI menù, another things I tried was to hard shut down 2-3 times to enter the recovery environment but that never worked... I also tried to flash Windows from a USB but I was able to do that only from a Mac since is the only machine I had available, and it did not worked

Is there another way to enter safe/recovery mode?

Thank you in advice

dalchina · 03 Jul 2020

Hi, see Option 2 from Tutorials:
Add Safe Mode to Boot Options in Windows 10

- start by booting your PC from a Win 10 install disk (if you don't have one, see Tutorials as to how to create one - you would need access to another PC of course...)

Do you have a disk image you could restore? tenforums members time and time again recommend the routine use of disk imaging to give you a chance to recover to a previous good state quite quickly. E.g. Macrium Reflect (free). Many advantages.

You could try creating Macrium Reflect's boot disk, which includes a useful 'Fix boot' utility.

I would also recommend you check your disk with an appropriate 3rd party program such as HD Tune e.g. by booting from a live boot disk.

step1992 · 03 Jul 2020

I tried with a W10 image disk on a usb but the result was the same...when I boot and choose that as the booting object it just keep going on rebooting

dalchina · 03 Jul 2020

Thank you for your reply.

Sometimes people have trouble either creating the USB correctly or configuring their PC to boot from one. Are you familiar with doing that?

Are you sure it ever actually started trying to boot from that disk?
- did you configure your BIOS to boot from it as priority, or via a boot selection menu, whichever may be appropriate for your PC?
- how did you create the bootable USB disk- did you use e.g. the MS media creation tool to create it directly?

Hopefully you didn't just copy a Win 10 iso to a USB disk drive.

If you still have trouble, if available, try booting a different PC from it to check it succeeds.