Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery

If you can't find the key, you have some options:

1) Ask Dell to send you recovery media. They will probably charge 15 bucks to send it.

2) There must be a recovery partition on there. It will contain a file called install.wim. You just need to Apply that wim to the existing windows partition. However, you can't do that from within the existing windows installation. You can do it if you can attach another machine, or if you boot up repair media and do it from there.

3) Install a free os. Linux Mint is popular. I am downloading Mate 64 bit as we speak. Download - Linux Mint

searle said:

I don't have a copy of the license key, so can't reinstall windows. It's a dell, I have everything I need off it but just have no way of activating it, came preloaded on the laptop with no stickers or anything with the key on. Looking for a fix as having to pay for another copy of windows isn't an option for me.

Hello, all. I am in need of your help. I am running Windows 7 Pro 64bit. I have tried the Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery and it has been unsuccessful. When I get to step 10, I noticed that there is also a COMPONENTS.iobit, DEFAULT.iobit, SAM.iobit, SECURITY.iobit, and SOFTWARE.iobit. Are those supposed to be there? On step 13 my sizes are way off. My DEFAULT is 616,744, SAM 102,400, SECURITY 45,056, SOFTWARE 104,382,464, SYSTEM 25,976,832. I have also tried last known configuration, sfc scannow says I have errors but cannot repair them, running system repair 3 times, and all of the Bootrec.exe options. When trying to load windows, the Windows Boot Manager says the File: WDFLDR.sys Status: 0xc000000f failed to load because a required file is missing or corrupt. I would like to do a Windows Repair install but to use the "upgrade" option I have to be in windows to do it. I have an external case that I can put my corrupt SSD drive into, is it possible to run the Repair Install from a working system and repair the external drive when it is being used as a secondary drive? If that makes sense. Also, I am not sure when it happened but the Startup Repair disappeared after trying one of the options I have read online and I am now using a bootable USB drive of Windows to use the Startup Repair utility. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!

Hello MilkMee6,

If you have not already, you might see if doing a system restore at boot using a restore point dated before this happened may be able to help.

Hope this helps for now, :)
Shawn

I'm afraid that wouldn't work for a repair install. It must be upgraded from within the running OS you want to repair.

As a test, see if you may be able to boot into Safe Mode, then use the tutorial below to troubleshoot with a clean start to see if you may be able to boot into Windows afterwards. If so, then you may be able to continue with the tutorial below to find the culprit to fix instead of doing a repair install.

Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup

MilkMee6 said:

Ok thanks. I am unable to boot into safe mode. When I run Startup Repair I receive two errors. msisadrv.sys is corrupt, Error Code = 0x2. And wdfldr.sys is corrupt. I copied those two files from another Windows 7 64bit OS and put them on my corrupt drive and it gave me the error code listed above. Any other way to fix these two corrupt files?

Update - Trying to start windows, windows boot manager now gives corrupt file ksecdd.sys.

Looks like it may be time to reinstall.