Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

Brink · 22 Jul 2013

iamclare said:

I have done all the steps and did not miss anything, but when I restarted my laptop it still goes to the start up repair window. What should I do? Please help. I tried tapping on the F8 button repeatedly on the boot screen (black screen) and it only makes a beeping sound and goes straight to startup repair.

Thanks so much!

Hello Clare, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Sorry for the late reply.

Are you able to get to step 3 and 4?

If not, then you might see if you are able to also do what I posted above for Pradatorius to boot to the System Recovery Options.

Hope this helps for now, :)
Shawn

Aasish · 23 Jul 2013

Problem still exists.....

iyyuchtus · 27 Jul 2013

Good Morning Guys!

I've tried the tutorial (Great and Easy tutorial BTW!) and followed it to the letter. I did not encounter any problems during the tutorial.

However, after completing the tutorial, my system is still stuck in the Infinite Loop.

I tried doing the tutorial again, and it's still stuck.

I'm still hesitant to reformat my computer, since it has been running great for 2 years, and there are a lot of programs already installed.

The problem only started when one of our carpenters suddenly switched off our electricity to make some adjustments.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

Harun42 · 13 Aug 2013

The worst thing happened to me:

The file sizes presented here are approximate estimations, and may vary depending on your system. If any one of them are 0 bytes, then you should stop what you're doing now and seek an alternative method of recovering your system, because Windows cannot function with a 0-byte size registry hive.

Is there any solution for this? Please, this is urgent.

Brink · 13 Aug 2013

Hello Harun, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if you may be able to do a system restore at boot using a restore point dated before this happened may be able to help. Otherwise, you may be looking at reinstalling Windows if you did not create a system image that you can restore.

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

Harun42 · 13 Aug 2013

Thanks Brink, I guess reinstalling is the only solution for me. :)

SIW2 · 13 Aug 2013

Unless you have shadow copies....Do you think you have any?

You should be able to boot up external media, ( recovery disc/install disc/usb ) and do a system restore. ( Option 2 in the tut Shawn linked )

Harun42 · 13 Aug 2013

I don't have any images or copies. Reinstalled Windows and the same happened again. I don't know what to do.

Brink · 13 Aug 2013

Was this a clean install that you did?

Clean Install Windows 7

Harun42 · 13 Aug 2013

Brink said:

Was this a clean install that you did?

Clean Install Windows 7

Yes, that was exactly what I did.