Windows 10: Preparing Automatic Repair - New PC Pandemic Issue?

So, for the last 4 days I've been troubleshooting this weird issue... to make my story short, I was using my PC normally, played some CoD till like 5 am, turned off my PC, went to sleep, around 6 hours later, woke up, turned on my PC, never got to use it again.


I work as an IT, I'm a Quality Control Engineer and a Computer Technician, so workarounds are my kind of thing. Tried everything, literally everything that I could find on the Internet, from Microsoft Technicians answers to several posts here, to Dell Support Guides, nothing worked. I replaced several components HDD, SDD, RAM, Re-flashed my BIOS, tried BIOS Recovery, repairing Windows Startup boot files by command prompt, disabling my GPU integrated and dedicated one, several USBs with a fresh and official Windows ISO, all the keyboard shortcuts you can imagine, can't even go on safe mode, I even tried trying to install windows into Legacy Mode and nothing, nothing worked...


After being really annoyed about it, I decided to take it to a repair shop to see what they can tell me about this issue, still waiting for an answer, but today, at 7am, my cousin's boyfriend told me that when he tried to turn on his PC he got the same "preparing automatic repair" message, and the same boot loop issue. Soon after he contacted me, 3 other friends experienced the same thing. Like I told before, my first thought was that this was something regarding nvidia, since every nvidia user got a new update some days ago, but some of them never installed it and some of them don't even own nvidia GPU's, so, it gotta be Windows.


Shortly after this happened, I decided to make a general search on Google, and found out that thousands, yeah, thousands I'm not even exaggerating of users had this same issue in the last 2 weeks.


So, what are you going to do about it Microsoft?


I already posted this in many other popular forums to generate awareness, because this seems to be happening more often and there's no real fix, since we all have different PC's with different components/BIOS/etc...

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preparing automatic repair

Hi Sanjay,

Preparing automatic repair appears when something goes wrong with your PC and the system attempts to resolve it by itself. Upon checking the Community, we have found a related thread which includes a suggestion that can resolve your issue.
You can refer to this
link and check out the response of Sudharshan M K, one of our forum moderators. From there, you can follow the steps to
perform start up repair from Windows Recovery Environment.

Get back to us should you need additional assistance.

 

Preparing Automatic Repair + other issues

Hi again!

I've followed the instructions but I turn on the computer and it doesn't do anything you've described. I am still getting the "preparing automatic repair" and then the "choose an option" screen. I've tried the start up repair but it says it's "diagnosing
your PC" and then it says that startup repair could not repair my PC. I have the software you have suggested on an 8GB USB drive.

 

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.