windows 8 stuck in endless preparing automatic repair

Anonymous
2013-01-06T20:25:17+00:00

Hi 

I recently bought a sony vaio laptop with windows 8 out of the box.

Now the system is not starting

it says preparing automatic repair for some time then a blank screen comes up for  while and then a screen comes up saying repair not completed...it automatically restarts and same thing continues in a loop

please help with this

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-05-11T00:36:24+00:00

    In this case, all the 3rd party apps, will be uninstalled ! Must be another way !

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-21T05:16:11+00:00

    This works!!!

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    JustinKostic replied on  October 29, 2012

    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

    I made an account just to say that this worked like a charm. 

    I inserted my Windows 8 DVD and had BIOS boot from the DVD drive. Then, I opened the command prompt and entered the commands listed. The chkdsk step take awhile (~8 hours on my mostly full 500 GB HDD), so be patient. Once everything was finished, I rebooted and Windows started fine and all my data was intact.

    Thanks!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-28T23:36:00+00:00

    that didnt work either

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-07T23:33:21+00:00

    This happened to me. Turned out that one of my RaM dims wasn't pushed in all the way.  So check for that and then I would see if your RaM went bad too.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-02-01T03:21:47+00:00

    Okay so.. This f11 and f9 and f8 stuff was really confusing me because none of it was working for my ASUS. But. That's when I learned that different brands have different keys for their recovery. So, say if you have an ASUS computer it's f9. If any of these keys aren't working just search your computers brand and recovery key.

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