Startup Repair -- how long is too long?

Anonymous
2010-03-17T13:27:39+00:00

I'm trying Startup Repair on a Windows Vista laptop that won't start up after having reportedly been shut down normally, after what sounded like a Trojan attack.  (Not sure what happened to it exactly, but my friend wasn't running antivirus software!)

Startup Repair says "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete," but it's been running for about 9 hours now, and trying to Cancel it yields the message "The current repair operation cannot be cancelled" -- is it still actually doing anything? Would it be worth it to let Startup Repair run any longer?

Thanks

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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Anonymous
2011-02-04T04:23:51+00:00

Sorry for not getting back to this thread at the time. In the case of the laptop I was having trouble with, the hard drive had to be replaced. I don't know whether the HD was the cause of the original problem, or shutting down the Startup Repair process damaged the HD.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-02-28T19:41:44+00:00

    I'm having a problem with my samsung laptop atm, it kept getting stuck at 2% so I've switched it off and tried again 3 times and it moves no further than 2% despite being left for over an hour each time?! Help?!?!?!?!i

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-26T09:25:38+00:00

    Happened to me today on a Toshiba laptop.

    I have little patience with such thinks so looked up here for some instant guidance. Ignored all the usual reports of 'don't touch it', 'reload everything' and not having 3 hours to spare let alone 3 days I took my usual option of turning off (re-booting not being possible).

    Back in business in 3 minutes. Although none the wiser what the message was all about, which puts me on par with the rest of the world.

    Strangely enough this was the second complete hang up this week - the other being Avast locking my desktop (ditched Avast which replaced my ditched Norton for the same reason and all is well again). There may be a conspiracy about.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-05-26T14:22:05+00:00

    I found this thread when my Son's Windows 7 Pro 64 Sony Vaio laptop was locked in start up repair. He called me when he became concerned that the system was locked up. I read the posts and advised him to wait. He left the system powered on and when he returned three days later it is still running start up repair and can't be aborted.

    I stopped by to pick the laptop up and take it home with me and pressed and held the power button until the laptop shutdown. When I got the machine home, I connected the power supply and pressed the power button. The first screen offered start up repair or boot windows normally. I chose boot normally and the machine booted to the desktop (!?!?).

    I opened a cmd window (run as administrator) and ran sfc /scannow and when sfc finished it reported: "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

    I updated Malware Bytes definitions and ran a full scan. Malware Bytes reported 35 objects detected. The full report listed Trojan.Necurs, Trojan.Ransom.Gend, Trojan.Dorkbot.ED, Spyware.Zbot.ED, Trojan.zbot.FKE, Trojan.FakeMS.ED,  Hijack.SearchBar along with a host of PUP registry keys. I allowed MB to remove the selected items and it prompted for an immediate reboot to complete the removal.

    I ran MB four more times, each time it found additional items ( 35 originally, 17,  3,  and 2) before the full scan returned with no results found.

    I un-installed Java 6 and installed the latest Java 7.

    I ran hardware diagnostics on the hard disk and the disk came up clean with no problems found. I returned the computer to my Son.

    Did Windows 7 startup repair work? Who knows? Could we have powered the system off sooner then the three days we allowed it to run?  There never was a progress bar during the startup repair "scan"  The only reason we let it run was because  startup repair responded to key strokes and informed us that it can't be canceled. Malware bytes found problems and fixed them.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-18T01:51:29+00:00

    Hello everyone!

    Please, can someone help me? After my computer crashed a week ago I bought a new tower Dell Inspiron . On my old computer I had a EasyUSTodo back up and backed up the files just in case. The person who helps me sometimes with technical issues said that he cannot recover my files from the C dick. Although t back up was installed to my storage drive. Today I installed a free version of easyUS Todo and tried to clon the disk partition in attempt to know if I can recover my files. Cloning took about an hour and then display said it starting startup repair. It is going on around 2 hours now. I did shut down computer completely twice and then it asked what to do and here was my options:

    1). Startup repair. - which is runnung

    2). System restore- said that I don't  have earlier restore point

    3). System image recovery - said that I don't have any system image yet

    1.  Windows memory diagnostic

    5). Command prompt - I didn't understand what should I do with it.

    6).  Dell backup and recovery - did not find any issue on my PC.

    what should I do?

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