

This will check major hardware componets for issue (do it just in case). Follow the on-screen instructions to perform System Test > Quick test. Please, shutdown the computer using the power button (pressed and hold for a few seconds until PC powers off)Ģ.1 As soon as you press the power-on button, immediately begin hitting the Esc button (like tap-tap-tap) before any logo appears.

Perform some basic hardware checks to rule out hardware problemġ. Have you performed some changes or upgrades recently or before the problem started ?

your HDD) or it may be caused by faulty Windows Update, some other faulty update/driver, corrupted bootloader, etc. Windows cannot start/boot and it is trying to repair it self automatically - It may be caused due to hardware problem (e.g. Maybe you guys know from experience, perhaps from any source at all, there has to be a time mark when it starts to attempt all over again, or how much time should it take, so that I can shutdown the computer from the power up button or reboot to try something else.Hello to the HP Support forum.

Not even a percentage of progress.īut what if the attempting is working? If I press the reboot button, does the disk become hardware garbage instantly, or is just Microsoft delaying the possible inevitable failure to access the disk in the first place? It has been stuck for 10 minutes, but as I do research about this I found out that it can go on forever, whatever the case may be: either the repairing be triggered via automatic startup, or manually via the installation disk, or "safe mode menu" thing (I don't know the technical name for the last one).Īnd we all know Microsoft is evil: there's no log showing up, just the black screen with the "dots circle" animation and an overall-mostly-useless message: "Attempting repairs".
