Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

YES. It works. Thanks a lot. Love you, man

I managed to get to step 14 before i couldnt go any further.. the default file appears then it says nothing else can be copied and go straight to D:\windows\system32\config\regback! What have i done wrong? all the files in the previous step had bytes.

I've read through a bunch of pages of this thread and my eyes are watering so I just wanted to add my problem and see if anyone can help. Thanks in advance!

The laptop in question here is a Toshiba Satellite L655-S5161x.

I have the same issue as many -- DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM all show up with 0 bytes.

What is an "alternative method of recovering your system"?? (as stated in Step #13)

I even copied DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM from another working computer (with Win7), restarted, and it STILL loops infinitely!

Before that, I had previously already did a FULL reinstall of Windows 7 from the laptop's HDDRECOVERY, which also formatted the HDD, so this thing should run as if it is fresh out the box! It doesn’t. It just loops.

The laptop is old, slow, and has essentially been replaced already, and ALL of my important files were manually (slowly) removed using CMD prior to the reinstall… but that’s not the point! The point is to get this thing to work!

Thanks.

This SAVED MY LIFE, thank you so much for this, really.

I used it on windows 8.1 and worked like a charm. I had a problem with the manual recovery too, so my only alternative was to dismount the drive of my laptop and plug it in as external drive and backup the data. Instead this procedure fixed everything and I didn't have to do any of this tedious job.
It worked very easily, i love you

My system did not reboot normally and now my DIR shows NOTHING!! As u can see on the photo, at 5:46pm on 7/14/2016 (today) there is a file "Recovery.txt". What next??

Worked like a charm! Thanks a ton!!

I created an account, simply so I could tell you that this saved my computer, tonight. Ran two Windows updates on work computers, this afternoon, but third strike on the home computer sent me into an evening of tailspin and, well.. infinite loops.

you are....... my life savior.............. since 2 month my pc not working.... Black window with mouse Cursor....... than i decide change my hard disk........ but..... today.... Type in google "CD/DVD boot than restart fix" than i read your "TUTORIAL"...... step by step follow your tut..... "THAN RESTART MY PC OOOOOOOOOO WOW..... FIX MY PROBLEM" ................ THANKS ............

sorry for my bad english.