Windows 10: "preparing automatic repair" loop help me pleaseee

Please please help!

My old CPU shut down the other day and refused to boot back up; instead it gets stuck in an endless cycle of "preparing system repair". After doing some research, I landed on using an external USB drive to custom reinstall windows. Everything has gone smoothly until I get to the page "Where do you want to install windows?", and I have four drive options.

None of the drives can be selected though, and instead I get an error message, saying; "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks."

The computer is an old HP Pavilion, originally windows 7, but is now windows 10. My only goal here is to retrieve the files on it, and copy them to another hard drive or something. I don't want to lose the files.

Literally any help is appreciated!

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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.