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
    2012-12-25T00:34:15+00:00

    Have a look at this post Custom drivers to Windows 8 Pro

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-24T01:49:28+00:00

    If all else fails, change out your memory.  There are a lot of questionable DDR3 out there from one specific country that is not China or the USA, is present in a lot of new systems, and causes Windows 8 to go into a repair loop and/or multiple blue screens, each time with a different error.

    To validate this, try to install Windows 7 and if that fails (or components of Win7 fail, such as updates, etc) it may be time for new memory. 

    I have seen this on two separate systems I have built and one laptop - I didn't catch it initially but after hours of screwing around, I finally realized that all of the systems had the same memory manufacturer from the same country.  When I changed the DDR3 on one of the desktops, Windows 8 installed fine without errors and will no longer boot loop.  And this is with an SLI NVIDIA 2Gb card.

    Unfortunately, in these cases, it was NOT a Microsoft issue although it would certainly appear so since it is the OS erroring out due to bad memory...

    The memory I am using now is Kensington and seems to be working 100% of the time.  Ill repost in a week with an update.

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