Windows 10: Looped preparing automatic repair and choose an option screen

Whenever i boot up windows, my lenovo laptop displays prepairing automatic repair and after that it tells me to choose an option. I tried safe mode, which didnt appear to do anything and only brought me back to this same loop. I thought that there was an issue with one of the hard drives, so i took out my drive which was NOT the boot drive and replaced it with a different drive from a different laptop. This fixed the issue and now im able to boot into windows, but i would like to get the info from my broken drive or return this laptop to being able to use that broken drive. I do not know why the drive is broken, all the files seem to be still accessible.

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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/Diagnosing Your PC Loop

Hi,

To resolve your concern with continuously looping your system, we suggest that you follow the Startup Repair steps below:

• Turn off your computer.
• Turn on your computer. As soon as you see the Windows logo with the spinning dots, press and hold down the power button until your computer turns off. Do this process
  twice.
• Turn on your computer for the third time, and let it load.
• It should give you the message: Preparing Automatic Repair.
• On the next screen that would appear, click on Advanced Options.
• Select Troubleshoot.
• Go to Advanced Options.
• Click on Startup Repair.
• Wait for the repair to finish.

We would appreciate it if you could get back to us and provide us your feedback.

 

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.