Windows 10: Windows 10 PC Boot hangs at Preparing Automatic Repair. Five white dots frozen on black...

I've noticed that the PC shut down on itself a couple of times over the past couple of days. I assumed that it was performing automatic updates.


This morning the PC booted but got stuck at OEM boot page with the additional message Preparing Automatic Repair with usually spinning 5 white dots frozen..ie the dots were NOT spinning.


I unplugged everything from the PC except the mouse/keyboard USB and one HDMI monitor and the network cable. No difference.


I research online and then tried the following:

a performed multplie hard reboots following advice that a Windows recovery screen would eventually appear...but it just repeated the same failure again and again and again...

b I downloaded/prepared a new boot USB drive, and changed BIOS boot settings to boot from that drive UEFI...which it attempted but failed in a similar way, the difference being that the Windows logo replaced the OEM boot screen. The uSB drive definitely was activated as the light flashed continuously during boot. My sense was that after trying to boot from USB it then tried to boot from the hard drive and the OEM screen reappeared. I repeated this several times. Sometimes the Preparing Automatic Repair would appear and then freeze, and sometimes it would just freeze.

c I changed the BIOS settings to disable UEFI and enable legacy boot, again with USB as priority as recommended in a post by someone with the same issue and I am now waiting for several hours in the hope that it sorts itself out.


But I am not hopeful, so I'm writing this request for some new ideas. NB 99% of posts relate to spining dots but my dots are frozen.


Thanks for any help.


System details: Windows 10 Pro, Intel NUC i5 6 series, standard graphics, secondary data drive

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Hello. This is similiar topic on our forum but now i will explain more brighter.
So last time after i change in my UEFI boot priority from :"UEFI USB KINGSTON" to "P1 SSD SAMSUNG EVO 250 GB" i am getting weird booting problem with Windows 10.







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