Windows 8 is stuck in an automatic repair loop

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My windows 8 get in a automatic repair loop and it couldn't repair it. And than it says log file d:\windows\system32\logfiles\srt\srttrail.txt

What to do?

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do a selective boot up with bios

get cmd to open and check

bootrec /fixMBR

bootrec /Fixboot

bootrec /rebuildBCD

and also

chkdsk /r c:

chkdsk /r d:

chkdsk /r e:

chkdsk /r f:

then let repair go thowe again and should be stoped

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Anonymous

Hello Coonut,

Thank you for your reply,

I would suggest you to login to any other computer and create a Windows 8 installation disk. Using that disk you can perform the troubleshooting methods given below.

Refer the link to create the installation disk:

How to create installation media for a PC refresh or reset:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media

Hope the information helps.

Please reply with the results, in order to help you fix the issue.

Wish u a Happy New Year!

Thank you

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Anonymous

2013-03-23T21:08:46+00:00

Nvm, I took my computer to the shop and of course the guy couldn't do anything. I asked him to back up the data from my hard drive AND FOR SOME REASON ALL THE DATA ON MY HARD DRIVE WAS WIPED CLEAN. So he didn't do anything and I had to pay him $140. Seriously **** Microsoft, I just lost hundreds of hours of work.
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2013-03-20T15:43:36+00:00

Try restoring the system to a previous date..........

It 100% works (worked for me).

For most people who have problems here, it probably will not work. Because right that is their problem!

When I had this automatic repair problem, i -like so many here- managed to come into the repair/restore options menu. The problem was that for different reasons, none of the options worked. Like me, most people will see that the restoring to previous date option will not work... just because W8 cannot find any stored previous restoration points. Even though, for sure, W8 had made them automatically before installing updates.

In my case these problems came from the secundary partitions i created on my harddisk, the cause described here one or two pages ago.

After the factory had put a new image on my SSD and my HD, i only made primary partitions on the HD. The automatic repair loop didn't occur after i had to do a hard closure (start button) when a program crashed. Actually, the automatic repair worked (nearly) as it should: it ran some time, then finished with a message like that it hadn't been able to repair the problem and I should try a re-install etc (or something thelike). But my computer just started up fine afterwards, and from the log-file I could read that automatic repair had run through a number of checks but didn't encounter anything wrong. So the message should have been different, something 'like no problem found'.

And another time, when i had messed up my profile a bit, I indeed could find some previous restore points, and this also worked fine. But in that case, no automatic repair or BSOD had been involved.

So you can conclude that if the rescue options of W8 work, they may work fine. But unfortunately, they sometimes don't work, e.g. because W8 smells secundary partitions in its territory... And then, often after showing automatic repair loops and/or BSOD's, all rescue-options fail one after another.....
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