Windows 10: 0xc000021a infinite repair loop.

I have followed some other posts on this topic, but have had no success.

I have created and attempted to run a Windows 10 media creation tool on USB. No success with that.


I would try a clean reinstall, but there are some very important family pictures on the pc that I would like to recover.


Thank you in advance for any help.

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Infinite Repair Loop


I have an HP 14-ac151nr laptop. It attempts to diagnose and repair but loops. Cannot access safemode.

Have tried startup repair
bootrec.exe with /rebuildbcd & /fixmbr & /fixboot
chkdisk

I found this while searching the forum. Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery - Windows 7 Help Forums and tried it. on step 13 it said "The file sizes presented here are approximate estimations, and may vary depending on your system. If any one of them are 0 bytes, then you should stop what you're doing now and seek an alternative method of recovering your system, because Windows cannot function with a 0-byte size registry hive."

Of course everything was 0-byte.*Mad

I would assume its toast and I would need to do a clean install, or maybe a repair install or something else? Not sure what is the best action at this point. Need advice.

 

Infinite loop of startup repair


Welcome to Ten Forums, Goonsoon. If your windows 10 is activated you can clean install it and it will automatically activate again. You may want to consider that if the situation is an infinite loop of startup repair. This is from the tutorial forum. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...n-install.html . Just follow the steps, sometimes the only thing to do is start over.

 

Desperate: Error 0Xc000021A reboot loop

Hi Christoph,

I suggest you to refer the suggestions provided by
Yashwanth Kotakuri on November 14, 2015 from the link below.

[Solved] Infinite loop blue screen windows 10 0xc000021a

[Solved] Infinite loop blue screen windows 10 0xc000021a

Let us know the status of the issue to assist you further.

Regards,

Guru Kiran