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Automatic Repair is meant to preserve data - it troubleshoots and hopefully repairs just boot and startup problems.
How the Windows 8 Automatic Repair feature works - TechRepublic
goes further with some boot recovery commands if the automatic repair is unsuccessful - hence the implication to attempt to run this three times.
Shawn's tutorial covers automatic repair from the boot menu: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2843-automatic-repair-run-windows-8-a.html
If the Preinstallation Environment command prompt is available, it can be used to back up files from the hard disk to external USB storage, but it requires some degree of competence with the Windows command prompt shell console. It is a pity that WinPE and WinRE do not have a simple GUI file manager. It is possible to install 7-zip in WinPE, I think, which has quite a useable file manager interface.
Much simpler is a small live linux, either USB or CD, such as Puppy linux, to manage transfer of important data from hard disk to external storage, or indeed, cloud storage,
How the Windows 8 Automatic Repair feature works - TechRepublic
goes further with some boot recovery commands if the automatic repair is unsuccessful - hence the implication to attempt to run this three times.
Shawn's tutorial covers automatic repair from the boot menu: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2843-automatic-repair-run-windows-8-a.html
If the Preinstallation Environment command prompt is available, it can be used to back up files from the hard disk to external USB storage, but it requires some degree of competence with the Windows command prompt shell console. It is a pity that WinPE and WinRE do not have a simple GUI file manager. It is possible to install 7-zip in WinPE, I think, which has quite a useable file manager interface.
Much simpler is a small live linux, either USB or CD, such as Puppy linux, to manage transfer of important data from hard disk to external storage, or indeed, cloud storage,
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP COMPAQ Presario CQ57
- CPU
- AMD E- 300 APU with Radion HD Graphics 1.30GHz
- Motherboard
- inbuilt
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI
- Sound Card
- High Definition Audio on-board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- notebook
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x768
- Hard Drives
- Seagate ST9500325AS
Google drive 15GB
Skydrive 25GB
BT Cloud
- PSU
- external 20v
- Case
- Laptop
- Cooling
- pretty good
- Keyboard
- inbuilt
- Mouse
- touchpad
- Internet Speed
- BT Infinity Unlimited - 80 up 20 down =70/16 really
- Browser
- Chrome Canary usually
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender and Malwarebytes
- Other Info
- no Start menu modifications
Upgraded with no issues to 8.0 and to 8.1