

Perform some basic hardware checks to rule out hardware problemġ. Have you performed some changes or upgrades recently or before the problem started ? your HDD) or it may be caused by faulty Windows Update, some other faulty update/driver, corrupted bootloader, etc. Windows cannot start/boot and it is trying to repair it self automatically - It may be caused due to hardware problem (e.g. If there's any data you need off of it take it to a reputable professional.Hello to the HP Support forum. Have you made any recent changes to your system? Have you verified your hard drives aren't failing? Try something like Hiren's Boot CD and run HDSentinel, what's the health? A failing Hard Drive is a common cause of what's going on. If System Restore and Startup Repair both fail you're probably looking at reinstalling Windows, unless you've got a friend who can come check it out, in which case make sure you buy him a 6-pack. To get to this GUI when your system is working normally hold shift while you press the 'restart' button in Windows. Go through it, I suggest you try the most recent restore point first, but you can always retry if it happens again.


The UI for System Restore is fairly self-explanatory. The 'Start-Up Repair' option is the same thing it's already been trying. After clicking on 'See advanced repair options' Click on 'Troubleshoot' then 'System Restore'. Windows makes these restore points unless they're disabled or broken (i.e. This restores the system state (registry, all executables) to a previous time. Your best bet, unless you have backups, is a system restore. You can click on 'See advanced repair options' to get to the same recovery options on the disc. Okay, if you let your computer try automatic repair and it fails it should dump you to a screen that looks like this (sorry for the crappy watermark, just Googled for it).
