Boot issue

Mmoore854 · ‎12-20-2021

HP notebook stuck in “Preparing Automatic Repair”loop

BeemerBiker · ‎12-21-2021

Not good. This has happened to me on a few occasions, most recently on a failed upgrade to Window 11. I did finally manage the upgrade.

First: What caused the original problem? Sudden power outage? Replaced hard drive or add a PCIe card? Install some software that caused problem? Saw some warnings about the hard drive?

Are you booting an HP recovery device (USB or CD) ?

From a Microsoft "repair" (USB or CD) and run the troubleshooter?

You will have to disable secure boot to boot from USB.

What I used to fix my similar booting problem

created USB "windows 10" boot USB downloaded from Microsoft.

Disable secure boot in BIOS to allow USB to work.

- do not install win10, just select the repair option

- Repair boot block

- Run troubleshooter

If the above does not work look in the repair options for restore points.

1 - If the diagnostic cannot find a system you probably need to reinstall windows**

2 - if a system found but no restore points you can try in install of win10 that keeps old files.

** You may want to replace the hard drive with a new one so after the fresh install of win10 you can copy any important documents from the original drive assuming it had not totally died.

HTH

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