Windows 8 is stuck in an automatic repair loop

Anonymous
2012-10-26T21:04:03+00:00

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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Anonymous
2012-10-29T14:14:32+00:00

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
2014-12-31T16:33:06+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-04T17:12:00+00:00

    Maybe at least for some of the many people with automatic repair / recovery related problems, the following may be helpful.

    On the Dutch forum, member TAK101 reported this thread on another forum (Thanks tak101!)

     

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w8itproinstall/thread/57931d5c-6f63-479e-aa09-5949651d968b :  "Windows 8 UEFI won't boot together with, in presence of, another drive in the system when that other drive contains an extended Partition."

     

    At least in my case it is probably the source of the problem: I repartitioned my internal harddisk adding an extended partition with some logical drives. This harddisk is the second drive, because the system is on an SSD (c:) According to this thread (or a linked one) it applies to both internal and external drives.

     

    Can Microsoft confirm this and does this mean it might be solved adding only primairy drives in repartioning, until this obvious bug in windows 8 is solved?

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-03T05:50:24+00:00

    Hi

    I am really stuck with my brand new Aspire M5-481PT. Its not even a month that I am using it. Yesterday it showed the problem "Your PC ran into a problem. We are looking for errors and will restart for you..." The screen goes into "Diagnosing you PC"..couple of minutes later it shows "Preparing Automatic Repair"...and later followed by " Repairing Disk errors. This could take one hour or  more."

    I have been waiting to check on and nothing happens. The screen goes blank!

    Please help me. I started using this only on January 22nd 2013.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-01T11:30:41+00:00

    Now my computer fails to play sounds (in any circunstance, media player, web, system sounds, etc) and the video playback is really slow... I've seen some users complaining about this issue and it seems to be solved by just restarting the system... For me this means a high risk of facing the automatic repair loop once more :/...

    Will Microsoft take much more time to came up with a solution to all this major faults? Its desapointing at least...

    EDIT: suddenly my video/audio problems disapeared with no reason. Still didn't restarted my computer.

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