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Recovery repair looping
Microsoft upgraded my Win7 HP Compaq nx7400 Laptop to Win10 free of charge and it worked fine. Hence I have no cd or dvd.
Having already got Win10 on my PC, Parkard Bell an Toshiba laptops which are working fine, I neglected to make a recovery usb for the HP laptop.
I want to give the HP Laptop to a friend as a backup. However when I tried it recently it wouldn't start properly. It went into repair mode but it started looping such that I could not get to safe mode or a restore point. "Preparing Automatic Repair / Diagnosing Your PC" was the loop message.
I have tried the media creation tool but that fails with error message 0x80004005 – 0xa001a.
I did manage, when the HP Laptop first worked, to get the Win10 version which is 1703* 15063.540