Windows 10: How do I fix the endless preparing automatic repair loop on my dell pc?

woke up this morning to my screen saying preparing automatic repair when I didn’t restart or update anything last night. I came home and it still says it. I tried shutting off my computer to reboot it but it does not work. I can’t get in touch with a real person when calling Microsoft and I’m very frustrated. Please help thank you!

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HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED and Preparing Automatic Repair loop


Hello Les,

Have you checked other threads on these forums to see if there are any suggestions you can try.

Here's one to try: Windows 10 preparing automatic repair loop

 

Preparing Automatic Repair loop

1) I created a USB boot disk via the Media Create Tool.

2) Powered on with that drive and it was indeed selected as boot. It blinked during startup but again went into loop. Similar to "Preparing Automatic Repair" loop except no such words. The loop now consists of just the Dell splash screen and a half circle
of dots below. Repeats forever.

Have I missed something or done something incorrectly? Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

 

endless loop of Preparing Automatic Repair ... Attempting Repairs ...

Thanks for the excellent review of "Refreshing" Win10. I've read through all of the posts in this thread hoping to find something that related to my own specific problem ... but no joy.

Three days ago my laptop refused to boot up properly, opting instead to go into the endless loop of "Preparing Automatic Repair ... Attempting Repairs ... Diagnosing PC".

I've been on several sites where fixes have been discussed, but none have worked for me. I've tried to use my Repair/Boot Disk that I made via Glary Utilities ... but nothing happens. Likewise, loading a System Restore Point has no effect.

It now looks like I have no choice but to Refresh Windows - which would take me back from v1803 to v1607. I have no great problem there, but have a feeling that after doing that I'm still going to find myself in the "Preparing Automatic Repair ... " loop.

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated.

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Update ... I tried various options offered, including System Restore Point, several more times in desperation - and bingo! The first time SRP had got nowhere, but on the second attempt it informed me that it had failed due to being unable to update a file relating to Onedrive (desktop.ini?).

Aha ... with my abysmally slow Wi-Fi here (cuts off all the time) it gave me hope. So I tried once more, making sure the Wi-Fi connection kept open, and got back into Windows after 3 frustrating days.