Unable To Boot At All Or Repair
Feb 7, 2016
I found my laptop was stuck in some loop, it wasn't able to boot up and offered me to automatically repair it, however it doesn't solve anything and I've tried doing a full system reset to it however the same problem occurs still, it just doesn't boot and offers to restart and try to repair again or more options. I have tried different commands such as the SFC, CHKDSK, but got no where.
Laptop is Windows 10, Asus k501-U, i7 6500u, 12gb Ram, HDD 1tb + 16 gb SSD ...
When I do start up repair I got this message a few times: 'Start up repair couldn't repair your PC...
Log file: C:WINDOWSsytem32LogfilesSrtSrtTrail.txt
And when you do CHKDSK (I think) end error message is 'Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50'.
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