Windows 10: New SSD, “Preparing Automatic Repair“ loop

I am currently replacing my 250GB SSD with a 2TB NVMe SSD, I want to do a completely new clean install of windows, not clone the drive so I can get a fresh start.I couldn’t get the new NVMe working with the windows 11 installation media, I did attempt to use the media creation tool but the install wouldn’t work on the drive at the “Select location to install Windows 11” stage * see image 1: https://x.com/kitteasstuff/status/1908684033929961749?s=46&t=TQ-RksnUMS2_4AdQ4hq3Kw.Then I attempted to get help from a friend, we saw the drive was running, it appears running in BIOS, and with my ol

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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!!

I tried Everything in repair mode. Start up repair, system restore( cant click next because it says "You must enable system protection on this drive). I even tried command prompt method to restore but while restoring i get another message system restore did not complete successfully with detail message of "system restore failed while restoring the registry from the restore point 0x80070002" Please help











I Have windows 10 copy from the Microsoft website and my computer is "Asua Esstional asus essential series".

 

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.