- WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE INSTALL
- WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE WINDOWS 10
- WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE WINDOWS 8.1
- WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE WINDOWS 8
The HDD is almost fully utilised (1 gig free). I believe the version of Windows is 10 Home Edition.
WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE WINDOWS 10
The O/S was upgraded from Windows 8.x (as shipped) to Windows 10 (MS free upgrade) a long time ago and there have been no previous issues restarting. Once the HDD had sloJumping back into the Recovery Environment then “use another operating system” option had gone, confirming everything had been cleaned up.One of our ThinkPad Yoga goes into an endless loop when attempting to reboot.
WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE INSTALL
I wanted to give the laptop back completely sorted so ran the 8.1 update myself, only to find it refused to install from the Windows Store with this very helpful error…įortunately someone on TechNet has already found a more sensible explanation and suggested clearing out the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder, which worked a treat. I suspect the laptop may have either ran out of battery or been turned off during the 8.1 update, somehow leaving the boot loader a bit confused about which OS to load and resulting in the infinite reboot. Once that process completed I was back into a working Windows 8.0 environment with a message stating that the 8.1 update had failed and that the previous install had been restored. That took quite a while as the laptop is an odd mismatch of a (fast) i5 CPU with a (painfully slow) HDD but eventually got to a Windows GUI where it started rolling back \ restoring the previous version of the OS.
WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE WINDOWS 8.1
Went back in again and tried the Windows 8.1 option instead, to my surprise the system got a bit further and started running a chkdsk.
WI DOWS 8 1 EBDLESS RESTART LOOP AFTER UPDATE WINDOWS 8
With that in mind I tried booting the Windows 8 option but that failed in the same style as what I first saw. The Windows 8 option appeared with the usual logo but the other two looked generic. A list of three operating systems appeared: I was pretty certain the owner of the laptop wouldn’t have installed a dual boot system and after clicking the option above I got some evidence to back up my initial corrupted update theory. However before I got that far I noticed something rather odd… the usual MS advice to Reset \ Refresh) so went in with the idea to use the Advanced Tools to dig a bit deeper. I didn’t want to do anything drastic with the machine (i.e. Hit that then F11 to get to Recovery to get into the Windows Recovery Environment. None of the classic keystrokes (F2, Delete) seemed to do anything so quickly hunted down the HP service manual which tells me Esc is now the magic key. With that in mind I wanted to get into some sort of recovery environment… “Joys” of UEFIĪt this point I soon remembered that the old-school F8 Safe Mode methods are pretty useless on UEFI \ Windows 8 so needed to look elsewhere for diagnostics. Gut instinct suspected a failed 8.1 update as the error message seemed to suggest it was trying to roll back to a previous OS rather than your average Windows Update. The startup process didn’t last long before it rebooted but there was just enough time to spot an error message along the lines of “attempting to recover previous installation” before it fell over. The laptop itself was pretty new, an HP Pavillion 14 “Sleekbook” – upon firing it up the HP branded loading screen spinner gave it away as Windows 8.x With a couple of hours to spare waiting for the World Cup games to start I gave it a shot. Typically it decided to do it just as the user had some important end-of-course documents to complete so needed a quick turnaround. Today I had a little challenge to repair a friend’s laptop where Windows had got stuck into an infinite loading \ reboot loop.