ASUS laptop boots into Automatic Repair

[djdelarosa25]

My friend asked me to fix his ASUS laptop. He said it wasn't booting up. Sure enough, it boots straight into Automatic Repair, and after that, it goes into this error screen.




I went into the ASUS website to learn how to boot the thing up into the BIOS/UEFI in order to set it to boot from the flash drive that has Windows 8.1 installation media. It stated to shut it down, hold the F2 key, and press the power button. Alas, nothing happened: it still boots up into Automatic Repair.

Could you guys help me out?

 

[samuria]

Being asus it will have a built in recover parition you have to hit f9 the second the screen lights you have to be very quick as it will resume if your not quick enoughtsee How to restore ASUS laptop to factory settings - YouTube

 

[djdelarosa25]

It doesn't work. It still boots up to Automatic Repair

 

[Bat 1]

Try rapidly pressing either the esc or del key when booting