No boot issue, Windows stuck in startup repair loop.

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SharonMary

Original title: Stuck in eternal Startup Repair loop!


Hi everyone,


Every time I start my computer the Startup Repair tool launches, does its business and then informs me that the tool cannot automatically fix the problem.

  • When I look under "Problem details", I see a number of problem signatures, one of which is Problem signature 07: CorruptRegistry.
    This is enough to send me into a frenzy, but I kept cool (for now ...).
  • I then looked under "View diagnostic and repair details". Each "Test Performed" entry indicates Result: Completed successfully.
    At the end of the list I see "Startup Repair has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem."

Next step


I pressed <ESC> during startup and went through all the F1, F2, F9, F10 and F11 options.


F11 opened the HP Recovery Manager. I went through the Advanced options > Computer checkup options; namely:


Launch CheckDisk for the Windows Partition

Launch CheckDisk for the WinRE Partition

Open a Command Prompt


The first CheckDisk option runs the first three steps, but Step 4 of 5 seems to be a problem: it stops at 12% complete (85801 of 271344 files processed. I have repeated this checkdisk step several times, each time it stops in exactly the same place.


The second CheckDisk option seems to run OK. It's very quick (perhaps a subset of the first checkdisk option?)


The Open a Command Prompt takes me to X:\windows\system32> I can switch to C:\ and D:\ and my structure seems to be OK.


With all that info, could some kindly geek advise what I should do next? I know just enough about DOS prompts to be dangerous, so if there's anything I can do to solve my problem via the Command Prompt option, could you please give me some KISS steps to follow.


Thanks a million in advance,


Sharon R.

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