Windows 10: Spinning Dots at Boot Up

Discus and support Spinning Dots at Boot Up in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; I have win 10 x64 on a Dell XPS 8700. It had Win 8.1. Been on Win 10 since release. Today my son went to reboot the computer and at boot, just got... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015.

  1. Spinning Dots at Boot Up


    I have win 10 x64 on a Dell XPS 8700. It had Win 8.1. Been on Win 10 since release. Today my son went to reboot the computer and at boot, just got spinning dots. He turned it off, same thing. Got to a diagnostic and it said it could not repair. So I decided to use Acronis 2016 to restore the weekly image from Sunday. Acronis said restore was successful, but same thing, Just spinning dots under the dell logo.

    Any Ideas?

    :)
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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  2. Windows 10 stuck at spinning dots

    so when I tried to boot up and power on Windows I am greeted by the hp logo and spinning dots, after a while the hp logo disappears and the spinning dots just stay there but however when the hp logo disappears the spinning dots spin at a lower frame
    rate and the screen gets brighter. It just stays like this and I don't know what to do I can't get the system to work
     
    angelohuang_982, Sep 22, 2015
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  3. windows 10 does not load, stuck at preparing automatic repair, ISO does not work just windows logo and spinning dots , any fix ?

    I have tried several times. I have changed the boot order in the bios and have gotten to boot from usb stick , but only get the windows logo and dots spinning in a circle. The iso does not do anything other than give the windows logo and keeps on with the
    spinning dots. Same with preparing automatic

    repair, I get the HP logo with preparing automatic repair and the spinning dots and it does nothing else does not go to diagnosing your pc. I have tried booting from dvd with ISO on it and get nothing but HP logo and spinning dots.
     
    nightrodder50, Sep 22, 2015
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  4. Spinning Dots at Boot Up

    i just did a reset and now same thing is happening. I am at a loss.
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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  5. Spent the night working on this and no luck.

    First, the drive is a Samsung 850 SSD (256GB). I upgraded to that shortly after I got the system in Arpil. I still have the original dell drive with 8.1 on it. So I tried booting to that and it boot fine. So I do not think this is a hardware issue.

    I tried restoring two different acronis images to the SSD thinking one might be bad. Both said succeeded but the same issue happens with the spinning dots. I also tried restoring to a new hard drive (instead of SSD a 2TB I have) and same thing.

    I put the SSD in another computer and with the Samsung Magician software it said the drive is fine. There was a firmware update for it so I updated the firmware. I also wiped the drive using diskpart (clean command) to delete the EUFI partition thinking why not at this point. I have not tried another restore yet.

    Anyone have any ideas?

    thanks
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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  6. Cliff S New Member
    Have you tried a clean install? Could have been that the boot manager was/is corrupt.. A lot of people that used Acronis have reported problems with it's imaging saying ok good, but upon re-image it sometimes fails or corrupts in Windows 8 & 10. Try using Macrium, Reflect Free. Reflect also has a built in boot repair in the WinPE recovery environment, should something happen.
     
    Cliff S, Sep 22, 2015
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  7. Thanks for the reply. I am pulling my hair out on this.

    I have not tried a clean install. do I need to go back to win 8.1 first and then upgrade?

    I find it odd that i got the issue of the spinning dots and then the re-image the same thing. I am wondering if something else is going on. If acronis failed, I would assume the might be some other type of issue. Also, I tried using the reset with keeping my files but had the same results.

    FYI, I did use acronis with win 8.1 when I go the new SSD to go from the HD to SSD.
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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  8. Cliff S New Member

    Spinning Dots at Boot Up

    If 10 was already activated- no. You will be aske 3 times to give the key code, just: 1. skip 2.skip. 3. Do this later, then when windows is finished installing and you have an internet connection it will reactivate automatically, you'll see this in settings>update and security>activation.

    If there boot manager was corrupt and it was not a Full disk image & just the os partition that might explain the problem,
     
    Cliff S, Sep 22, 2015
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  9. thanks. I did do a full disk image with all partitions. I guess I will try a clean install. I need to find where to download.
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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  10. Cliff S New Member
    Cliff S, Sep 22, 2015
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  11. thanks, I just tried another reset this time not to save any of my files and the same thing is happening. Very Frustrating.
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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  12. Cliff S New Member
    I don't use reset or system restore, just Macrium. Which incidentally also has the option to create not only the recovery USB, but also a recovery boot menu option, and on my 840 Pro recovery takes only about 7 minute then(SATA 3 SSD being much faster than a USB 3.0.*Smile
     
    Cliff S, Sep 22, 2015
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  13. Spinning Dots at Boot Up

    thanks again. I will look at mcrium in the future, but still hoping to figure why this happened and get my acronis images to restore. It happened out of the blue.
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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  14. How long are you waiting? When I first installed 10 those spinning dots were there for me for about 15-20 min.
     
    Bobby Phoenix, Sep 22, 2015
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  15. First time this happened I waited around 10 minutes. Windows 10 had been installed since release so this was out of nowhere. Just after a normal reboot. Then I got into trying to reset/restore, etc....

    Last night after a restore with acronis i let it be until this morning so that was around 5 or 6 hours. Now I just did reset and it has been around 15 or 20 minutes.
     
    rinconmike, Sep 22, 2015
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