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07-24-2025 11:07 AM
Welcome to the HP Support Community! We're here to help you get back up and running.
Thanks for sharing the screenshot! That "Automatic Repair" screen means Windows hit a snag while trying to boot up.
Based on your tech chops, you’ve probably already rebooted once, so let’s dive into some hands-on recovery options:
Try These Steps from "Advanced Options"
Startup Repair
- Go to Advanced options → Troubleshoot → Startup Repair
- Select your OS and let Windows try automatic fixes.
System Restore
- If you had System Restore set up, this can roll your system back to a stable point.
- Path: Advanced options → Troubleshoot → Advanced options → System Restore
Startup Settings
- Choose Advanced options → Startup Settings → Restart
- Then press 4 or F4 to boot into Safe Mode.
- If successful, you might undo recent changes or run SFC/DISM commands.
Command Prompt Checks (if you’re comfortable)
You can run these from Advanced options → Troubleshoot → Command Prompt:
- sfc /scannow DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth chkdsk /f /r C:
- These check system files and disk health.
If the issue persists, we have to reload Windows from scratch.
First, we need to download the Windows image onto a 32GB or 64GB USB flash drive (Flash drive only, memory cards and USB hard drives are not supported; It has to be 32GB or 64B only)
You can download the Windows image through the 'HP Cloud Recovery App', which can be downloaded from the Windows Store.
Refer to Step 2 on the link below:
And follow Step 4 to reload Windows from the newly created USB recovery media.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_9223491-9126662-16
And out of curiosity—was this triggered after a recent Windows or driver update?
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