Continuous Reboot

ummagumma

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Hi all,
My laptop froze the other day and I was forced to power down manually.
On restarting it just went in to a continuous reboot. I then turned it off and back on and this time it said on screen "preparing for automatic repair" but then after about 5 minutes it again rebooted with the same message.
When I purchased Windows 8 Pro 64 bit I ordered a back up disc at the same time so I tried this.
I got the message press any key to boot from disc and the DVD drive spun up and started the boot process but then restarted again and continued in the reboot loop with the message "Automatic repair".
I've also tried pressing the F12, F8, F5 and none will respond.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1750 and the F keys are Blue so normally have to press the Fn key and the F key I need.
I assume I should be pressing the Fn key and required F key at boot up for them to respond, or will they respond without the Fn key?
Really stuck now, any help with this would be much appreciated.

Cheers Ummagumma
 

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  • OS
    Windows 7
If you press the F12 key it may be trying to do a full restore, in which case you'll lose everything. It sounds like you are having the same problem I had, you are in a reboot loop cos Windows 8 cannot repair the drive in the way it needs to be repaired.

You will need to scan your drive with GWscan or something similar, it is on Hiren's Boot CD/VD. Or you can download it by itself and make a boot CD for it, what you need to do is download that and run the scan on your main drive, and then run a full media scan on it, should take about an hour. After that, you can try to start Windows 8 and the Auto Diag and Repair should fix whatever else is wrong.
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro with Media Center/Windows 7
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus § DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200) 4400+ § Corsair Value Select
    CPU
    AMD 4400+/4200+
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus/Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)
    Memory
    2 GB/3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce 8400 GS/GeForce 210
    Sound Card
    nVIDIA GT218 - High Definition Audio Controller
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hitachi 40" LCD HDTV
    Screen Resolution
    "1842 x 1036"
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD50 00AAKS-007AA SCSI Disk Device
    ST1000DL 002-9TT153 SCSI Disk Device
    WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 ATA Device
    WDC WD32 WD-WCAPZ2942630 USB Device
    WD My Book 1140 USB Device
    PSU
    Works 550w
    Case
    MSI "M-Box"
    Cooling
    Water Cooled
    Keyboard
    Dell Keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Intellimouse
    Internet Speed
    Cable Medium Speed
    Browser
    Chrome/IE 10
    Antivirus
    Eset NOD32 6.x/Win Defend
    Other Info
    Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.
I have done all of the diagnostic tests and all passed except the Hard drive. I have now ordered a new drive and going to do a clean install. Can anyone tell me how long this should take please?
 

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  • OS
    Windows 7
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