Cannot Boot Past Startup Repair ...

welner

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Thurs: Dell 9010 Win 7, worked fine, now cannot boot past Startup Repair ... and repair ends in Msg: "Windows cannot repair this computer automatically ..."

Friday: Cannot find any cmos jumpers on the mobo to reset ... But I did reset the cmos battery, pressed pwr button, put battery back in, turned on computer, reset time in Bios, no change ...

Thurs: Dell 9010 Win-7-Ult i7 3770, 4gb-ram, cannot boot past Startup Repair, don't have disc, can't boot through safe mode option, can get to CMD-prompt, but can't do sfc /scannow bcs cmd-msg says "repair is scheduled, can't use cmd-promt" to boot Windows "until Startup Repair completes."

Tried system restore option earlier from one of the repair screen msg-pgs, did Full-SR, it did nothing except that it pre-warned in a SR-msg that I would lose the latest .net-framework.61 updates,

and these 3 drivers: AMD (HDC) 08/05/2010 1.1.2.6
Intel (SCSI Adapter) 08/06/2010 8.6.2 1015
NVIDIA Corp (SCSIAdapter) 08/06/2010 10.6.0.19

Right before this whole problem started All was fine, then I dropped the keyboard and their was a forced shutdown, bcs with only 4-gb-mem, the task-manager was reporting 95%-mem-usage, (15%-pcu-usage) and I was rushing to shut the pc's open programs down in order to shut the pc down, in order to restart the pc, so it would re-recognize the keyboard and optical-mouse.

The kb which had stopped working altogether and the om which was working, but it's right-click-button was not responding at all, after I had unhooked and then rehooked both of them, after the kb was dropped and the kb and om's wires were all tangled up ... also had gone to Bios and turned on TPM, read about it then turned it off without saving any changes ... But now cannot boot computer ...

While trying to gety passed Startup Repair page went to Bios options page, and chose to do full diagnostics tests, all were all completed, shows that everything is 100% passed-ok ...

Problem Sig: StartupRepairOffline, Sig-01-02: 6.1.7600.16385 - 03: unknown, 04: 21198682 - 05: AutoFailover - 06: 9 - 07: BadDriver - OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 - Local ID: 1033

Startup Repair diag-details: Session details: System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0 Windows directory = D:\Windows AutoChk Run = 0 # of root causes: 1 - Root cause found: SUR has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem.

On restart boots to box-type admin screen, seems to be starting normally, but goes to the same box-type admin screen again, and not the full Win-7 sign-in page, after signing in it then goes back to Bios choice page for: Startup Repair or start Windows normally ... Cannot get out of this repeating behavior loop ... Is it trying to mistakenly boot to D:\Windows ( AutoChk Run = 0 ) ... Now when trying to use system restore a msg says: error: (0x8000ffff) ...
 
Solution
I prefer to create a bootable USB. You can download any OEM repair as long as it matches your version of Windows it should be fine.

Best app to create a bootable USB is Rufus

Kurz

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The harddrive probably failed (Harddrives live only for 4-5 years), you need a new harddrive and a fresh install.
Need to hook up the drive to another computer to see if you can get data off of it.
 

welner

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Was able to check hdd after this problem started through Bios options page diagnostics and all systems on computer was 100%-ok-fine ... Hdd has almost no additional folders-files stored on it, because I just bought this used new condition computer ... The only thing on the hdd that I would need-want to recover would be the Win 7 Ult OS ... I'm going to order an oem repair disc and won't have it until the end of next week ... In the mean time I'm looking for a possible break-thru repair, workaround to fix this problem ...
 

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My other PC is a Dell 740 XP Pro with a TSSTcorp+CDRWDVD+TS-H493A drive, can that write an oem dvd disk ... What is the name-kind of blank discs I need to buy ... What software do I need to download to write the dvd with that CDRWDVD drive ... And where do I get the copy of Win 7 Pro or Ult OS to write to the oem dvd disc ...