unding69 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 My friends laptop is having the Windows autorepair loop and I haven't seen a solid fix in youtube or google. Is there are fix for this without loosing the personal files? Bonus Question: Is there a way to find windows 10 product key in cmd? (wmic doesn't work). Preparing just in case my last option is to reinstall windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uffbros Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Windows 10 won't need the key for activation..It is already on the Microsoft server and will be checked and activated after the clean install. unding69 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy2004 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 (edited) if you mean the dreaded.. windows is repairing your computer.. and then you tell it to continue only for it to say it cant find anything wrong.. and then tells you immediately afterwards it needs repairing.. There is a fix.. a bootable windows 10 installer flash drive.. Boot from the flash drive. pressing whichever F key you need to select the boot order.. aka USB / CD / HDD.. follow the on screen instructions as though your going to reinstall the OS.. i believe the first screen is where you tell it where you are.. so fill out location. language etc click NEXT.. till you get to the screen that says INSTALL..(SEE PICTURE) DONT PRESS THE INSTALL NOW BUTTON.. bottom left of the screen. REPAIR THIS COMPUTER.. Use that to FIX the repair this computer loop.. Once its FIXed the issue.. reboot the computer as normal <remove the flash drive. the problem is the bootloader gets corrupted.. and hence the boot loop. When does it get corrupt. when windows 10 updates itself.. so turn off windows updates.. and manually update when YOU want. I used to belong to a group on facebook, and this was 90% of the problems people where facing.. i got so bored posting the same fix everytime.. IF you dont have a windows 10 bootable flash drive.. 8gb minimum required.. type in windows 10 media creation tool and follow the instructions on how to create the bootable flash drive.. NOTE: option 2.. creating for using on another computer. No key needed and no activation required.. as your REPAIRING whats already activated.. Edited July 26, 2021 by andy2004 more info unding69 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unding69 Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 On 7/26/2021 at 11:14 AM, uffbros said: Windows 10 won't need the key for activation..It is already on the Microsoft server and will be checked and activated after the clean install. Thanks. It indeed didn't ask and automatically activated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unding69 Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 17 hours ago, andy2004 said: if you mean the dreaded.. windows is repairing your computer.. and then you tell it to continue only for it to say it cant find anything wrong.. and then tells you immediately afterwards it needs repairing.. There is a fix.. a bootable windows 10 installer flash drive.. Boot from the flash drive. pressing whichever F key you need to select the boot order.. aka USB / CD / HDD.. follow the on screen instructions as though your going to reinstall the OS.. i believe the first screen is where you tell it where you are.. so fill out location. language etc click NEXT.. till you get to the screen that says INSTALL..(SEE PICTURE) DONT PRESS THE INSTALL NOW BUTTON.. bottom left of the screen. REPAIR THIS COMPUTER.. Use that to FIX the repair this computer loop.. Once its FIXed the issue.. reboot the computer as normal <remove the flash drive. the problem is the bootloader gets corrupted.. and hence the boot loop. When does it get corrupt. when windows 10 updates itself.. so turn off windows updates.. and manually update when YOU want. I used to belong to a group on facebook, and this was 90% of the problems people where facing.. i got so bored posting the same fix everytime.. IF you dont have a windows 10 bootable flash drive.. 8gb minimum required.. type in windows 10 media creation tool and follow the instructions on how to create the bootable flash drive.. NOTE: option 2.. creating for using on another computer. No key needed and no activation required.. as your REPAIRING whats already activated.. thanks for the reply man. i accidentally click on the repair install then accidentally tap on repair with files, i cancelled it by turning the power off. then when it restarted, it got the disk repair loop so with no more option i resorted to clean install. my issue now is that the office 2013 is asking for a key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) On 7/27/2021 at 9:45 AM, unding69 said: ... my issue now is that the office 2013 is asking for a key. But what the question - give to it this key and if you had a genuine registration, just log in to your account and Office will be activated automatically. Your genuine kay is also stored on Your account. (https://account.microsoft.com/) However, I think that after such editing like you did, you also need to reinstall Office, because it's quite likely that it's still damaged. Even if it was not damaged before, the probability is now quite high. NB! Office cannot be fixed any way, old must be uninstalled and everything cleaned up, then pc restarted and only after that can reinstall Office. Edited July 29, 2021 by Kalju unding69 and kamineepandya 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamineepandya Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 please log into your Microsoft account https://account.microsoft.com/ and if any key is attached to your account you can download afresh a new office from the link given there.As already stated by respected Kalju please go for a fresh install.Various geunine keys available at nsane forum and members ready to help Kalju and unding69 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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