#WINDOWS 8 ATTEMPTING REPAIRS INSTALL#
#WINDOWS 8 ATTEMPTING REPAIRS UPDATE#

No matter what I do - or how many times I reboot - I cannot get out of this loop. I have a Toshiba laptop, it's less then a year old and came with Windows 8 pre-installed, so i don't have a disc. Once you get the following screen, you can select your choice and boot your Windows in safe mode.

'Automatic Repair Could not Repair your Disk. Boot Menu, which shows two of my SSD and gives me the option to pick one or the other, and just goes back to the state where it. Click Repair your computer and wait for Startup Repair to scan your PC for Windows installations, then select your OS from the list.

Press any key when you see Press any key to boot from CD or DVD. Now it boots to windows which drops automatically into Windows Repair. Insert your Windows 7 installation disc into the CD drive, and boot Windows from the disk.

#WINDOWS 8 ATTEMPTING REPAIRS INSTALL#

To fix I put in my windows install disk, opened up the command prompt (after first trying auto repair) and:ДЎ) Used FDISK to set the windows partition active (the one marked system reserved)Д¤) Ran bootrec /rebuildbcd -> failed to find OSДҐ) Rebooted to the install disk, selected auto-repair and, upon reboot removed the DVD I elected to applyДЄfter the auto reboot, it could not find the boot loader. Immediately a slew of updates for Office 2010 appeared plus SP1 for VS 2010.

#WINDOWS 8 ATTEMPTING REPAIRS UPDATE#

I then installed Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 which also ran fine.ДЄ day or so later - after confirming and working in Office/VS 2010 - I switched Windows Update to show me updates for non-Windows applications. After successfully installing Windows 8.1 on my 2010 MacBook, running Yosemite as its primary OS, my Windows OS rebooted 5 minutes after a fresh install and now Im stuck in the 'automatic repair loop'. Setup went fine and I applied all the latest and greatest OS updates from Window Update. I recently setup a new machine with windows 8. While holding the Shift key, repeatedly and quickly tap the F8 key during the entire boot process.

Windows 8 attempting repairs