hi all,
i have an HP Compaq 8710p laptop that is about 10 months old. For no
apparent reason yesterday it just froze up and when i re-started it it took
me directly into Startup Repair. Since then all it will do is boot up into
startup repair and fix the same issue, then re-start itself and go back into
startup repair, fixing the same issue over and over with no change.
For some reason i am unable to press F8 to bring up boot options screen
during load. And this is easily the most annoying part about the whole
situation. there is absolutely NO WAY to interrupt the boot options and get
a "selectable" list of boot options, for some reason it ONLY goes to Startup
repair.
Startup Repair never lasts too long at all only about 20 seconds each time.
The diagnostic code in the details is as follows: (this is the only problem
it detects)
Root cause found:
Boot Manager failed to find OS loader.
Repair action : File Repair
Result : Completed Successfully. Error code 0x0
Time taken = 13400 ms
So it states that it has fixed it but every time i restart it i get the same
issue. I cant boot from cd because of course HP in its infinite wisdom
decided to make this a "diskless" restore. Using their own branded software
to restore your computer - of course there are no restore points (as i
couldn't make them some software issue) so now im forced to restore this back
to factory settings (which i really dont want to do)
If anyone has any idea or had a similar problem like this please offer any
suggestions. FYI i am a seasoned MS Programmer with about 2 decades of
experience and in my lifetime i have never had such a hard time trying to fix
a computer. I mean comon, give me a command prompt or something. I find it
ridicolous that i cannot interrupt startup at any time!
tia,
mcm
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