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Originally Posted by mike_gain
Well that didn't last long 
Windows 8 was really growing on me and I was happy with the purchase I made on Friday.....until this morning.
Went to open Chrome and got no response, went into task manager to shut "chrome.exe" down got an "access denied" error so I re-started via the power options.
Since then (about 4 hours ago) it has been stuck in a boot loop which consists of the following steps
1) Attempt to boot for about 2 minutes
2) Show a blue screen with a message like "There was a problem and your computer needs to re-start" for < 1 second i.e. so short that I can't actually read the message no matter how often I try.
3) Restart goes into Preparing Automatic Repair mode which appears to do nothing for about 2 minutes
4) then a blank sceen appears for about 1 minute
5) back to step 1
I guess I'll try and get my £25 back from Microsoft and throw a copy of Ubuntu on which is a shame as I really liked a lot about Windows 8 and it made a huge difference to my laptop's power consumption. |
interesting I will research recovery options for win 8 its not as clear as I thought
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There are some nice simple recovery tools on the windows 8 dvd if you created one. I suggest everyone does
---------- Post added at 22:27 ---------- Previous post was at 22:19 ----------
ok a little how to create a start up USB drive ,everyone should do this if they do not have media
On the new ui screen goto corner select search click settings tab and type recovery. Select recovery tab then select create a recovery drive. It will search out the drive and create you a nice bootable restore USB
You can get there by win key and r together and run control.exe /name Microsoft.Recovery
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Shift and F8 is meant to boot you into recovery . Now this is all well and good but my Asus mobo in its stupid wisdom uses F8 for boot select so when I try I either get the boot list or I am to late. In theory most of you will get into recovery using shift and F8. If you actually want to use safe mode you can enter recovery/troubleshoot/advanced options/windows start up settings
---------- Post added at 22:46 ---------- Previous post was at 22:45 ----------
Glad ive been pushed into a bit of research tonight otherwise I would have been stuck lol