Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

Works like a dream on windows 100 too. Saved me a couple of times ty ty props

Thankyou so much for this! I thought I'd broken my boyfriends laptop and this saved me $$$

I've done everything on this page but it didn't work. C: doesn't contain the right files and D: is corrupted. X: had the right files but in the end they all went to 0 bytes. What do I do???

I have an additional line after Default, Sam, Security, Software, system which is " SYSTME" with 0 bytes. Which is not appeared on the posted screenshot in your tutorial. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi Dzomlija, I register this account specially to say thanks! You have saved me a lot of works! You're really great, buddy! Thank you so much! :)

Hope someone can help. Here's what happened. Last Thursday I shut down my computer and a update installed. The next day I tried to turn on my computer and my computer was stuck in a loop that said "preparing automatic repair" and would shut down and repeat.

I tried this fix and it worked! But at the end of the day as I shut down my computer I got another update installed and again has crashed my computer. What do I need to do to get out of this situation????

I actually made the account JUST to say thank you for your help!
My computer was stuck and I had this infinite loop of failed "repairs".
This article saved me A LOT of trouble, and PLENTY of files!

Thank you!

Thanks Mr Dzomlija. Like others I have registered just to say well done. I was given an Acer Aspire laptop to look at, running Windows 8.1, but tried this method and it worked just fine. The symptom was the same with the eternal automatic repair loop and after spending two days recovering boot files, system restores, trying to refresh without a full reset and running chkdsk, sfc etc. this saved me a lot of frustration. The only way I could do anything was to load Windows 8.1 repair onto a USB stick, as there was no DVD Drive on this laptop and then boot from it, which allowed me to use the command prompt (which at least enabled me to backup all the user files). Great detailed tutorial and only took minutes. Others may not be so lucky if their problem is not registry related. The automatic repair loop seems to be a major problem, especially with Windows 8, but gives no information as to its cause, just takes you round in circles.

My system got powered off while Windows was booting, then every boot thereafter wanted to run the startup repair tool, which couldn't fix the issue or even tell me what the issue was to begin with. Was a little skeptical about trying these steps, but it totally worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH! It saved me from data loss and so much time it would have taken to reinstall Windows and get everything set up again. How can I send you some beer money? Cheers!