Fix Startup Repair Loop and Solve Windows 7 Loading Problem without Reinstalling

Ever wondered why your Windows 7 PC not able to load properly and inbuilt utilities like Startup Repair won’t able to fix this issue? Moreover, startup repair keeps coming again and again but didn’t able to repair problems of your computer. If you’re unlucky, other troubleshooting options like ‘System Restore’, ‘safe mode’ and similar to fix unbootable Windows system will not work either.  

Previously, Startup repair is used to heal problems with your computer by repairing or replacing important system files, fixing registries and removing problems with third party installed software. However, in some cases startup repair seems useless as it might not able to detect the exact cause behind the problem or the startup repair itself facing difficulties with system registries or the conflicting windows system files.  

In such cases, you've got only one option to make your Windows system working again. That is, by reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows which involves risk of losing everything stored on your computer along with all the installed applications being removed completely. 

What causes ‘Startup Repair’ to Loop?
There might be bunch of reasons that causes startup repair to loop infinitely. However, we’ll group here only few popular reasons of why this is happening with your computer along with subsequent steps to fix it. The first and foremost popular reasons behinds this is due to bad registries which prevents startup repair to perform actions effectively and thus causes it to loop forever.  

Some other possible reasons could be malicious programs installed on your computer that you haven’t noticed yet. It may have high vulnerabilities of damaging system files and other registry settings which prevents Windows to load properly and prevents other system options to troubleshoot Windows. 

In both the cases, you can easily get rid of all the problems and roll back your old Windows in working state by performing clean installation of Windows. Again, doing this will compromise you to lose everything stored digitally with no traces of deleted files and folders, which makes data recovery impossible on your computer even by using most powerful data recovery applications

Little about ‘System Recover Options’ before getting in
It’s a Windows 7 inbuilt utility, mostly comes preinstalled with your copy of Windows 7 and if not, you might have Windows 7 installation disc provided from your manufacturer. As of now, we’re supposing that you try to access ‘System Recovery options’ using inbuilt recovery options provided from manufacturer. 

  1. Start or Restart your computer
  2. Start tapping F8 just after the beep sound or as soon as you get the motherboard screen.
  3. 'Advanced Boot Options’ screen will appear, choose ‘Repair your computer’ and hit enter.

  4. Choose your preferred language and click ‘Next’ to proceed.


  5. You’ll be asked to enter your username and password, after typing the same into text box click ‘Next’.  If you won’t set any password for current user previously, leave the password field blank.


If you’re trying to access this menu using Windows 7 Installation Disc, the steps will be little different. Insert installation disc on your CD DVD drive and press any button when asked to press any key to boot from CD or DVD…

Again choose language and click ‘Next’. On the ‘Install Windows’ screen, ‘Repair your computer’ option will be listed at the left bottom corner. Choose which copy of Windows you want to repair, applicable to multi boot environment. Click ‘Next’ to begin repairing your computer. 




System Recovery options’ windows mainly constitutes six options:


  • Startup Repair
  • System Restore
  • System Image Recovery
  • Windows Memory Diagnostic
  • Command Prompt



As of now, we restrict the information to ‘Startup Repair’ only. However, you can use further system recovery options as per your knowledge and capability to perform actions carefully.

How to fix bad registries and startup repair loop problem?
Before diving in, make sure that you’ve enough knowledge and capable to follow all the instructions carefully as any wrong attempt might leads to further damages of your computer. Those changes can’t be rollback and you might forcefully need to reinstall Windows and permanently lose all your important documents, pictures, videos etc. 

Once you’re at the ‘System Recovery Options’ window as described earlier, start following steps mentioned below:

1. Let’s give one more try to repair your computer to verify that the problem really exists. Click on ‘Startup Repair’ from the same window and it’ll start searching for problems. Wait for few minutes till action is being performed. 



2. As startup repair couldn’t able to fix startup problems, you should see the message ‘Windows cannot repair this computer automatically’.



3. Click on ‘View advanced options for system recovery and support’, which opens again the same ‘System recovery options’ window.
4. This time, instead of clicking on startup repair you’ll need to click on ‘Command Prompt’ as we’re trying to fix problems manually. Note: Basic command operating skills is required. So if you’re feeling uncomfortable, take help from your friends to do this for you. 
5. On the command prompt window, you’ll see the default drive of internal ram disk mainly used by system repair, perhaps labeled with X:\



6. Now you need to navigate to system drive, drive where your system is setup. Most probably, It’ll labeled with ‘C:\’. Don’t worry if you don’t know exactly the system drive as we’ll check and verify that we’re on the track. Just navigate to the C drive and type DIR and hit enter. You’ll see the common folders, only found in the system drive such as Program Files, Users and Windows. 


7. After confirming the system drive (which is C, we’re presuming), type CD \Windows\System32\Config and press enter. This will let us enter into the Config folder located in the system drive. 



8. Further, we need to explore its subfolder. Again, type DIR to check the subfolders containing into Config folder. It’ll contain folders like RegBack, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SYSTEM, SOFTWARE. 



9. Type MD newbackup and hit enter. It’ll create a new backup folder entitled newbackup in case, this whole process didn’t yield any positive result. 
10. Type Copy *.* newbackup and press enter to copy the created backup folder. In case, if you’re asked to overwrite existing file, type Ato allow all backup files to be overwritten. 
11. We’ll check and see if we can use windows automatic backup to fix/restore damaged registries. To do this, type CD RegBack from the config folder location to go to RegBack Folder.
12. Type DIR to further explore all the existing subfolder und RegBack folder. Please check and make sure that all the subfolders should be of defined size as mentioned below or at least very close to.  

* The DEFAULT, SAM and SECURITY file should be around 262,000 bytes in size
* SOFTWARE files should be around 26,000,000 bytes in size
* SYSTEM files should be around 9,900,000 bytes in size



Please note that all the file size mentioned here were in approximate figure only and may vary, depending on your system. If any of the file sizes were completely different or can say 0 bytes in size, you should stop following steps immediately and seek for an alternative method.
13. Once assured the files listed in RegBack folder is of defined sizes, then proceed to the next step.
14. Type Copy *.* and press enter to copy all the RegBack subfolders or files into config folder. Again, if prompted to overwrite existing files, press A and hit enter. 
15. Type Exit and hit enter to close the command prompt window. Restart your computer and most probably, you may able to access your Windows system as before. 

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