Stuck in Infinite System Repair boot.

[msg009]

Alright, so my friends computer has been acting stupid lately, so I tried looking at it to speed it up a bit. Its a Dell Inspiron 1750. So I tried to do a system restore to the earliest time I could, which was about a year ago, but once it rebooted it, it got stuck in a loop. My only option is to reinstall windows, and since it would be just to repair this computer, I was gonna buy the windows 7 OEM key and install that on the system. I was wondering if I had any other options to try before we did that.

*EDIT* So after looking at other posts, I discovered that it could possibly be the hard drive, or even the motherboard failing. I must mention that before it crashed, the cpu was maxed out at 100% constantly, with only basic systems running. Wouldn't allow windows update to work, etc.

 

[corroded]

Get hirens boot disk and see if something if actually failing..

 

[mcnumpty23]

its got a recovery partition--use that instead of buying windows

 

[msg009]

Alright, I'll try Hiren's BootCD, and get back to you. And I have no idea how to access the recovery partition.


*EDIT* Alright, so I created the boot disk, and booted from it. All that happened is that it got stuck on the Windows loading screen for a bit, then all of a sudden a blue screen popped up, for a split second (too quick to read) and the computer restarted. Now its going through the loop, but instead of going forever, it now stops and says "Windows repair could not repair this computer."

This is whats reported by Startup repair:

Problem Signature:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16835
Problem Signature 03: unknown
Problem Signature 04: 21200825
Problem Signature 05: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 06: 3
Problem Signature 07: NoRootCause
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

 

[mcnumpty23]

think with dell its press ctrl + f11 as its starting up for the recovery partition

 

[mcnumpty23]

and it shouldnt do that with hirens sure you made cd/dvd the first bootable device?

 

[msg009]

The Hard-Drive had failed. Thanks for all the help. A new drive and copy of windows 10, it booted right up!