Solved Windows 8.1 stuck on loading screen

Hi,

I have problem Windows 8.1 stuck on loading screen (clean install).
Windows 8 works perfectly.

1. Clean install.
2. First restart and then stuck on loading screen.
3. No updates, drivers or programs not installed.

Restart the computer and get into your BIOS, once in there, reset your BIOS to default settings, save and exit, reboot.

not work

Try one of those:

How to do a Automatic Repair:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2843-automatic-repair-run-windows-8-a.html
Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times - Windows 7 Help Forums

Try doing a System Restore from a date before, installing the app. the problem started.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/4692-system-restore-how-do-windows-8-a.html

It may not be seeing your System drive. How many drives do you have in the system, and/or are there any Recovery partitions on the drive?

You can try as Theog suggests, you can also boot to a Windows 8 install disk, get into Command Prompt and run "Bootrec /FixMBR and then /Scanos". If you can get into Safe Mode Command Prompt you can do it there too.

XweAponX said:

It may not be seeing your System drive. How many drives do you have in the system, and/or are there any Recovery partitions on the drive?

You can try as Theog suggests, you can also boot to a Windows 8 install disk, get into Command Prompt and run "Bootrec /FixMBR and then /Scanos". If you can get into Safe Mode Command Prompt you can do it there too.

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Excellent point, it just happened to me. I installed an old IDE drive (100 gig), using for system image backups, and when 8.1 RTM leaked I clean installed...all was well until I had to reboot and had the same blank screen. That's because MBR was isntalled on the IDE drive E and the OS was on drive C. So I had to unplug IDE drive, reinstall 8.1 and all was well, then I reattached IDE drive and everything works like it's supposed to.

Now I just have to remember to unplug the IDE drive when I have to reinstall.

Excellent pick up

Yah, you got it: The Boot Manager will always be installed to the first detected hard drive in the system. If there is an IDE drive in the system, the OS will always detect that as the first drive, regardless of how it is set in the BIOS.

It kept causing conflicts exactly as you describe until I finally just set the IDE drive as 1st boot drive in the Bios as well as Boot Manager. It's a pain, but it works. I suppose if I removed the IDE drive I could use Bootrec to /scanos and make a new boot record on the SATA drive.

XweAponX said:

It may not be seeing your System drive. How many drives do you have in the system, and/or are there any Recovery partitions on the drive?

You can try as Theog suggests, you can also boot to a Windows 8 install disk, get into Command Prompt and run "Bootrec /FixMBR and then /Scanos". If you can get into Safe Mode Command Prompt you can do it there too.

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X:\Sources> bootrec /fixmbr
The operation completed successfully.

X:\Sources> bootrec /fixboot
The operation completed successfully.

X:\Sources> bootrec /ScanOs
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.

Please wait, since this may take a while....

Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 0
The operation completed successfully.

I discovered it was my mouse. Windows 8.1 just doesn't like it being plugged into a USB2 port.
Now im booting without issues, with a Mouse plugged into USB3 port. Windows 8.1 not liking it with certain devices.

I also had the same case when I installed Windows 8.1 Pro on my friend's notebook (Acer Aspire E3-112). Apparently, that BIOS has touchpad settings which can switch beetween "Basic" or "Advanced". That case happened when "Advanced" touchpad settings, then I switched to "Basic" and it solved itself.

Hope it can help you, and sorry for bad English.