Try these steps.
This video looks good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L26ft53EyGI
Or try these steps.
BTW you do not need to download Easy Recovery Essentials. That is an ad. Just follow the steps they provide.
https://neosmart.net/wiki/startup-repair-hangs-startup/
https://neosmart.net/wiki/startup-repair-infinite-loop/
Also ignore their ad and try their steps.
https://www.disk-partition.com/windows-7/windows-7-stuck-in-startup-repair-loop-0310.html
At work when we get a call about the “Startup Repair” screen and they are in a loop, we tell the caller they have to send the computer in to be re-imaged. Their files are backed up then Windows installed. You can take the hard drive out and insert a new drive. A 2TB drive is $55
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822184773
Install Windows. Afterward insert old drive as secondary. Just plug it in. The bios should recognize the new drive as the main windows drive. Once at the desktop you can open a folder and you will see the “C” drive (Windows) and your old drive. Copy the files over to the new drive from the drive letter> Users folder> your name> All your files are in the Desktop, Favorites, Documents. Just copy the Users folder> your name> over to the new drive then sort out the files you want.
Next you format the old drive. You now have a spare hard drive you can backup yur files to.
Installing windows is easy. Insert the cd in and boot to the cd drive and follow the directions. takes about 30 minutes, most of which is just watching the install.
I use Windows 7 and prefer over Windows 10
I have always updated my win7 manually. I click Start/Windows Update. I never click on random “Notifications” that waltz in on pop-ups, emails or websites. As Kermit said: Don’t touch that Elmo, it’s still smokin’.
After you buy a new computer or pay some one to fix this one.
Learn to use imaging software like Clonezilla. You can take an image of your system and store it on a USB drive.
If you system crashes just restore the image.
Do you have any third-party disk encryption software on your computer?
The recommendation is to let startup repair run for as long as it wants, as often as it wants until you are back in, then back everything up. It could take a day or two of running, reboot, and then tell you it is corrupted and needs to run start up repair, and you are supposed to let it run again. It could be five or six times or more, but supposedly as long as it is running, it is going piece by piece repairing things.
Supposedly it is the best chance of getting back to where you can get all your files. People sell repair disks, but they are very iffy, and your best bet is startup repair.
If start up repair failed, I would buy a new hard drive, reinstall a new operating system, then hook up the old one as see if I could pull off the disk what I wanted of my old files. It is really either that or ship it off to a professional to recover the files.
I turned off all Windows updates. My laptop runs smoothly, and on Windows 7.
The updates take up so much room and make so many changes that it’s not worth it. Do a system restore to a point well before the last update, and turn off future updates.
You may also want to upgrade your memory, if possible. I went from 4GB to 16, and it’s glorious. Startup is almost instantaneous.
I turned off auto update over a year ago & have not updated anything manually since . NO problems with either of my Windows 7 desktops .
How old is it - and the hard drive - and the BIOS?
Before my last WIN7 machine died, I had to do a BIOS update for some incompatibilities ...had to do the same with a WIN10 machine too.
Try a sledgehammer.
God knows, I want to take one to mine.
I turned off updates a couple of months ago after having so much trouble.
Consider it an Adventure in Computing. Besides, Linux IS the Ultimate Windows Service Pack.
Update: Geek Squad appears to not know what the heck
they were doing. Said the hard drive was bad.
Took it back where I bought it.
AML Computer Services in Dawsonville Ga.
Rick Eubanks treated me great, replaced the HD at no
charge, which he didn’t have to do because taking it to
the geeks voided my warranty, and now I’m back on line.
If you’re in the North Georgia area AML Computer services
in Dawsonville Ga. sure took care of me.
There is another option you can use. All that requires is another PC and a USB stick (8 gb or larger)
You need to download the ISO file from Windows 10 and then install it on the USB drive.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-usb-bootable-media-uefi-support
Boot from the USB drive (if that does not work you may need to change some BIOS settings)
Use the USB drive to install Win 10 using your Win 7 key. This will work and you can choose to upgrade your Win 7 or install a parallel Win 10 installation depending what you want. Make sure you have enough free space on the drive.
If your computer can run Win 7 it can also run Win 10. And Win 10 accepts Win 7 keys still and this will activate your computer all legally. You can even choose to downgrade again to Win 7. Microsoft still allows Win 7 users to freely upgrade to Win 10. I have upgraded a lot of machines this way and Win 10 even runs on older computers with socket 775 processors like a Core 2 Duo, Pentium 4 or Q6600, as long as you have 4gb memory.
Same here a while back. The repair guy said not to download anymore updates. That’s what I’d been thinking for a while so haven’t and won’t.
Have a new annoying bar at the top this week stating Flash won’t be supported after Dec. Oh, well. It zapped out Word a couple months ago. Every day I wonder what else they’ll zap to force us to get that evil 10.