Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

Hi guys,

Thanks for this helpful post but while trying to follow the instruction I ran into another problem.

When I try to access the drive where the windows is installed (first shows as 0MB when you have to choose from repair) it says '' the request could not be performed because of an I/O device''I cant do anything after that.

I pulled the HDD out and tried to access thru a USB from another PC. Two folders showed up, one says temp and has some log files the other the main one where windows is installed says "this disk is not formatted do you want to format it now.
Oh BTW I tried to restore a backup too and it didn't work either.

Sorry I forgot to mention:

Repair your computer command shows up but after that there is no recovery options screen. In order to get that I made a usb drive with an windows bootable repair iso. Booting from the usb was the only way I could do the steps I said above and see the options screen. Please help.

This Didn't Work
Any Ideas On What I Should Do Now?

Glenh2nd said:

Here's an easy fix I found!

Go through all the steps listed until you get to the command prompt. Once you do type in the following.

bootrec /fixmbr

press enter then type

bootrec /fixboot

press enter and then restart your computer! So far it's been a week without any more Startup repair loops!




Glen

First of all I'm new here and don't usually post like this but it had to be said. I even registered just to say this thank you.
Thank you to both Dzomlija for the great tutorial and Glenh2nd for the end fix that worked for me. Thanks. I appreciate it a lot.

I had this problem: StartUpRepairOffline too, and the tutorial worked!
I'm glad my computer is working now!

I hv similar kinda problem dat is due to sudden power cut my pc wass directly switched off. Nd when i switched it on loop of startup repair goes on unable to load windows but here the main problem is even the advanced boot options cant be loaded. It directly starts up repair before i could open advanced boot menu nd use repair my computer

HI, and thank you for posting a solution that helped many others. I am hoping it will help me also.

I, too, am stuck in this endless loop. I have followed the listed directions, and get as far as step 4, with the exception of the dialogue box. This has been as far as I get with any other solutions, including the standard start-up repair on initial boot. I get as far as the desktop screen, with no user log-on option, nor any dialogue box for a next step. I have even left the laptop alone overnight and all day on this screen to see if it is just a long process, with no luck.

I would really like to find a solution and maintain my data. In fact, the day this happened I had just purchased a new external HD, as my old one failed with all my back ups on it, and I was all set to make new.

If anyone has a suggestion, I would be grateful.

Thank you!

Is there a certain format the copy command has to be for:


18. Type copy *.* .. and press <ENTER> to copy the backup hive files to \Windows\System32\config.

If you are prompted to overwrite existing files, press A to allow all file to be overwritten.