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
    2014-08-09T19:29:24+00:00

    I would love to try booting from a cd/dvd.  `however my new machine, delivered today is an ultrabook, with no optical drive and I dont have an external one to try plugging in.

    It hung up after I enabled bitlocker and has been playinmg up ever since.  It boots to the bitlocker password, `i enter it correctly, off it goes then crashes into the black screen "Preparing Automatic repair" .

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-07T14:15:49+00:00

    this work for me

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-11-11T20:09:54+00:00

    I found a different solution.

    New ASUS Vivobook. Upgraded to 8.1 Pro and enabled BitLocker. Rebooted upon command. Got stuck in the auto-repair loop until it finally refused to even get past the "Preparing Auto Repair" message.

    Turned off computer. While powering back on, I tapped F2 repeatedly until I got into the BIOS. Disabled Fast Boot and exited, saving changes.

    Rebooted to BitLocker prompt. Entered encryption password and booted normally.

    Will leave FastBoot off until encryption completes; then I'll test to see whether it needs to be left disabled permanently.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-01-21T19:09:41+00:00

    If anything doesn't work, restore your system (that is what I did and it works).

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