Windows 7 Boot Issues / Recovery Loop

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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any suggestions go get this PC out of this recovery loop. Its a windows 7 PC in my dads office with some legacey software on it. I probably wont get a chance to physcially look at it today, but if anyone has some suggestions before i go googling.

I'm assuming could be the following

  • corrupt boot record preventing windows starting
  • faulty SSD
  • fault on motherboard.
The actuall install is quite old and was cloned from a mechanical hard drive. I dont want to re-install as re-activating the software on this PC is going to almost impossible

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Murphy said:
Kind of hard to know without knowing what happens when either option is chosen, that's typically caused by a hardware fault but whether it's a driver or the physical hardware is hard to know without more details like whether any new software/drivers have been installed recently, whether it's throwing out an error related to the physical hardware like the drive or filesystem, RAM, GPU, etc, etc.

Also that dusty screen really triggered me. :D
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Start normally, and it just reboots to same screen, click repair goes to black screen and no further. No Recent hardware or software changes. ( i have been warning them for the last 5 years that this day would come!) PC is an Athlon II X3 450. its now actually considered retro!
 
Murphy said:
You could try forcing it into the boot options screen by hitting F8 just after the BIOS finishes loading but if it's not doing that on its own the likelihood of getting the safe mode, last known good, menu screen to pop-up is slim. Next best thing will be to stick the Windows 7 install media into the machine (i assume a CD) so it can find the files it needs to start the recovery environment.

If it's stuck looping that screen it's probably some sort of file corruption, could be fixed by a simple 'chdsk' or maybe a drive failure.
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Rroff said:
Unless something has changed software wise recently like updated drivers it is more likely a hardware issue like failing SSD/HDD or failing RAM or CPU no longer stable. If a lot older system possible the PSU is no longer providing stable power or capacitors on the motherboard are on their way out.
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I bought a 240gb SSD , i'm first going to try and clone the old drive with macrium reflect. then see if i can run fixes etc on the cloned drive, I have spare RAM, PSU, GPUs. If its the motherboard then its end of the line, unless i can find the exact one on fleaybay as the software may deactivate
 
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