Windows 10: Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything

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  1. Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything


    I can’t reset my PC with cloud download or local reinstall. I get error about no free space on computer. Can’t do system restore says there’s no restore points .I get Bootrec /Fixboot Access Is Denied in Windows 10.I put windows 10 on USB drive and it won’t let me install it . I posted picture of the error I get . I tried so many things and read so many articles with no results . Please help I need my laptop to make money after recently laid off. I can’t afford repair shop and I know none that can help me with this issue.

    :)
     
    Hannah_630, Dec 24, 2022
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  2. archz2 Win User

    Stuck in startup repair boot loop, C drive is in RAW

    Okay. I'll try with disk genius.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Okay I tried this command with disk genius.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]



    I got this result.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]



    Then I tried this command.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]



    and got this result.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]



    I forgot to mention earlier. 1 hour back, when I checked my C drive it is back to normal. I was able to run chkdsk /f and /r

    These analyses were done after that. The issue hasn't got resolved yet and I'm still stuck on the startup repair loop.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Okay. So I eventually created an image of my C partition using Macrium Reflect PE environment. Everything went fine. For some unknown reason, the image was of approximately 100gb in size whereas my C partition was occupied upto almost 175 GB.

    Then I booted using the windows 10 USB and deleted all the partitions of the C drive during the installation menu that asks for the location of windows 10. Then I chose the newly formatted C partition to install windows.
    The installation went fine. I got to the desktop wallpaper screens and icons. Then I booted using Macrium and restored using the image file.
    After I restarted my laptop. I got this error.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]





    After pressing enter, I got this.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]




    Then I checked in the boot menu of my BIOS. To my surprise, my SSD was not listed in the boot menu. Don’t know why.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]




    Then I booted using Win 10 USB, and ran sfc scannow. I also ran DISM, trying to restore the image from the official windows files present on the usb drive and got these results.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]



    Upon checking the volume information, I got this.


    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]





    I also tried to fix the bcd using the following commands.
    bcdboot c:\Windows /s Z: /f ALL

    The letter Z was assigned to the 100mb ESP partition on the D drive
    Now this 100mb partition is present on my D drive (SATA).
    The bcd fixing went well. I got the message ‘Boot files successfully created’

    Unfortunately I didn’t click a photograph of the result.
    Now I booted again in windows and I am seeing this result.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]




    After pressing enter, I got this.

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]


    Now I am stuck and absolutely clueless about my next step. Please advise.
     
    archz2, Dec 24, 2022
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  3. archz2 Win User
    Stuck in startup repair boot loop, C drive is in RAW

    I am not getting that error now. So I don't remember the exact words. Now after 'preparing for automatic repair' and spinning dots, windows starts and I see this screen.
    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]
    After running startup repair using the bootable win 10 usb, I got this error.


    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything [​IMG]


    How do I check esp partition and what exactly do I check in it?

    How do I format it and recreate the boot critical files? Please share step by step methods.I'm doing all this for the first time.
     
    archz2, Dec 24, 2022
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  4. shawna Win User

    Lenovo laptop stuck on startup repair and keeps looping tried everything

    Stuck in boot loop after 1809 upgrade on Lenovo Y700 laptop

    Hi all,

    After upgrading to 1809 from 1803 my laptop is stuck in boot loop. The boot sequence is now - Lenovo logo, blank screen, Lenovo logo (different resolution), blank screen, reboot.

    Here's what I tried -

    Windows 10 repair (created now from the new 1809 media tool):
    • System restore - no restore points have been created.
    • Startup Repair - did not work ("couldn't repair your PC"). Log file contains "Failure while setup is in progress".
    • Uninstall updates - unable to uninstall feature update ("we ran into a problem"). Was able to uninstall quality update 3 times but I'm not sure it's doing anything (still not booting).
    • chkdsk /r C: found no bad sectors.
    • sfc /scannow /offbootdir /offwindir found some bad data, but looking at the log it looks like these are just temporary files.
    • bootrec /fixmbr works but bootrec /fixboot prints "Access is denied" (I mounted the EFI partition and ran bcdboot but still got the same error).

    Kyhi’s Rescue Disk:
    • I see my data on the C / system partition, so it doesn't look like the whole disk is corrupted.
    • I tried to enable safe mode by modifying the boot loader with EasyBCD to wait for my input on boot, but when I press F8 and choose safe mode the computer just reboots again.

    Any suggestions on what else I can try before doing a clean install?

    Log files: logs.zip
     
    shawna, Dec 24, 2022
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