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How do I startt Preparing Automatic Repair
Below** I list most of what I'ved done to solve my BSOD problem**. Of the 16 BSODs, just 3 times on restart, I've gotten Preparing Automatic Repair. Sounds great but you have to choose from about 10 possibilities. I had a list*** of the three things I tried but I just had another BSOD and the list probably doesn't matter anyhow, because now I'd like to choose: "Save or Delete personal files and reinstall Windows over current installation." But a) I don't know how to get to Preparing Automatic Repair, and b) I don't know if it really saves all the files that are not Windows files or if it only saves, for example, those in certain directories. ????? It's only shown up 3 times out of 16 BSODs. I"ve googled, and all the google hits so far are about people stuck in a loop where the screen comes up automatically. (In 2018 that must have been a problem, but now there is an option to exit, although there are iirc 3 levels of options.) ***IIRC, 1) Quick Checks, 2) restart flles, 3) the startup parameters from the BIOS, and all these are about starting up, but I can usually start windows and use it for most offen 30 seconds, or 5 minutes or 4 hours, or once 3 days. The previous time, it finished booting and sat for an hour while I had dinner, but crashed 10 minutes after I started using the computer. Another option provided there is Go to Restore Point, but I don't think I have a good restore point, and even if I did, wouldn't the fouled up file remain fouled up, while other files were put back to that restore point. ** I've run memtest for 90 minutes, sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f, and I ran the May Windows update that hadn't happened yet. I then ran chkdsk /f /r. None of these fixed it, I've also used Device Manager and checked the top-listed 3/4 of the devices to see if a better driver was available. There was one for Com1, but it's had 3 other BSODs since then. (I'm planning to check the last listed quarter soon. |
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How do I startt Preparing Automatic Repair
micky wrote:
Below** I list most of what I'ved done to solve my BSOD problem**. Of the 16 BSODs, just 3 times on restart, I've gotten Preparing Automatic Repair. Sounds great but you have to choose from about 10 possibilities. I had a list*** of the three things I tried but I just had another BSOD and the list probably doesn't matter anyhow, because now I'd like to choose: "Save or Delete personal files and reinstall Windows over current installation." But a) I don't know how to get to Preparing Automatic Repair, and b) I don't know if it really saves all the files that are not Windows files or if it only saves, for example, those in certain directories. ????? It's only shown up 3 times out of 16 BSODs. I"ve googled, and all the google hits so far are about people stuck in a loop where the screen comes up automatically. (In 2018 that must have been a problem, but now there is an option to exit, although there are iirc 3 levels of options.) ***IIRC, 1) Quick Checks, 2) restart flles, 3) the startup parameters from the BIOS, and all these are about starting up, but I can usually start windows and use it for most offen 30 seconds, or 5 minutes or 4 hours, or once 3 days. The previous time, it finished booting and sat for an hour while I had dinner, but crashed 10 minutes after I started using the computer. Another option provided there is Go to Restore Point, but I don't think I have a good restore point, and even if I did, wouldn't the fouled up file remain fouled up, while other files were put back to that restore point. ** I've run memtest for 90 minutes, sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f, and I ran the May Windows update that hadn't happened yet. I then ran chkdsk /f /r. None of these fixed it, I've also used Device Manager and checked the top-listed 3/4 of the devices to see if a better driver was available. There was one for Com1, but it's had 3 other BSODs since then. (I'm planning to check the last listed quarter soon. With Windows 10 booted: 1) Run CHKDSK using Properties : Tools on the C: partition, and select "Automatic Repair" tick box. This is to try to tidy up C: before the next step. 2) With Windows 10 running, insert your Windows 10 DVD or use a "mount" of the Win10.iso file, as an optical drive. Run "setup.exe" from the DVD. As long as the DVD is the same version or a later version of the OS, the installer will make a Windows.old on C: , plus prepare a new C:\Windows to take its place. Your user files and Programs will be preserved. Short of nuking and paving the machine, this is the best compromise solution. ******* The "Automatic Repair" you refer to, is used when the OS cannot boot. It consists of three passes. First, a simple fix is tried, then the computer reboots. If it doesn't work, a second try happens. On the third try, the Automatic Repair does CHKDSK with read-verify of all clusters (as if, somehow, setting a $BADCLUS somewhere, will bring it back to life). If your machine is booting at the current time, then you move on to procedures like CHKDSK. After that would come DISM restorehealth and SFC /scannow. But those two can be eliminated by doing the Repair Install, as in step (2) above. You might want to slip in a backup at some point, so if C: needs to be deleted and "start from scratch", you'll have a copy of your email database and program installers. Paul |
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How do I startt Preparing Automatic Repair
On 24/06/2020 02:25, micky wrote:
** I've run memtest for 90 minutes, sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f, and I ran the May Windows update that hadn't happened yet. I then ran chkdsk /f /r. None of these fixed it, I've also used Device Manager and checked the top-listed 3/4 of the devices to see if a better driver was available. There was one for Com1, but it's had 3 other BSODs since then. (I'm planning to check the last listed quarter soon. How about power?Â* Have you checked that it's not faulty? Sometimes you only get intermittent power supply because of a fault and the machine just crashes.Â* It used to happen to me in a laptop when I found that the battery was not calibrated correctly.Â* the charge meter was always showing the wrong charge level so I decided to discharge the battery completely (two times) before recharging it again fully 100% and now everything works fine.Â* no more crashes and the battery level is showing correctly.Â* Calibration did the trick here without spending a dime apart from two hours of discharging and charging the battery and the cost of electricity.Â* The battery power was on/off without any warning. There is another method to fully revamp the windows folder and start-up programs but you are not a person with any intelligence so there is no point in doing it.Â* That method can reset the access rights of folders so that programs and updates/upgrades can be installed. -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:12:09 -0400, Paul
wrote: The "Automatic Repair" you refer to, is used when the OS cannot boot. It consists of three passes. First, a simple fix is tried, then the computer reboots. If it doesn't work, a second try happens. On the third try, the Automatic Repair does CHKDSK with read-verify of all clusters (as if, somehow, setting a $BADCLUS somewhere, will bring it back to life). If your machine is booting at the current time, then you move on to procedures like CHKDSK. After that would come DISM restorehealth and SFC /scannow. But those two can be eliminated by doing the Repair Install, as in step (2) above. You might want to slip in a backup at some point, so if C: needs to be deleted and "start from scratch", you'll have a copy of your email database and program installers. I finally managed to get into Preparing Automatic Repair. IIRC on this Dell Optiplex, I alternated between F10 and F8 as quickly as possible until it started. It had several options in addition to the one above, (but none of them were good for me). It had 1) reinstall Windows, which sounded good, but it had only 2 options, not 3 like the media creator version has. It had Keep my personal files (but still get rid of apps and settings!!!!.) and Get rid of everything so windows is like it comes from the store. 2) Startup Repair (but my problem is not being unable to start.) 3) Startup Settings -- which is the BIOS settings, " " " " " " . 4) Command Prompt 5) Uninstall the previous update, but my problem precedes that. 6) Go to restore point, but it only showed 1, after my problem started. 7) Recover using a system image, but I don't have one. Still it has a lot of options, but why do they hide Preparing Autmoatic Repair. Even when I gogogled, I only found people who wanted to get out of an endless loop involving it. |
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