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registry backup/restore=Startup Repair Infinite Loop
« on: March 16, 2017, 01:59:39 pm »
used the registry backup option to backup and restore my registry, now my computer is stuck on Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery. note: it had happened x2.

my set up: i have windows install on C drive (ssd 500 gb) and user profiles on D drive (mechanical  drive/ 8tb)

please need some help on getting my windows back before i attempt reinstall  windows.

note: i have spend hours researching and trying solution from places like tenforums, google etc but no luck, please i would appreciate any help, thanks in advance and sorry for my English



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Re: registry backup/restore=Startup Repair Infinite Loop
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2017, 02:57:59 pm »
Somehow the registry back up has become corrupt.

There are some steps in this article which may help, but they are for a single drive and you would need to be able to boot up with the install disk.

http://www.top-password.com/blog/fix-automatic-startup-repair-loop-in-windows/

How do you mean all of your profiles are on a different HDD ?

To determine which partition Windows sees your OS in, rather than doing it as the article says, enter bcdedit |find "osdevice"

That is a Pipe symbol before find and is the uppercase of \

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Re: registry backup/restore=Startup Repair Infinite Loop
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2017, 09:07:34 pm »
thank Boggin for replaying.
"How do you mean all of your profiles are on a different HDD ?" yes my user profiles are on d drive i used this guide: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1964-move-users-folder-location-windows-10-a.html
 reason is because i dont want my ssd to fill out with junk. however im having this issue now, i gonna use this guide: http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,5137.0.html and hopefully i can get it fixed, please if you have any knowledge let me know, also i dont think my backups are corrupted, i think there might be a bug on tweaking.com that is causing my windows to goes into Startup Repair Infinite Loop when restoring. note: i have 3, different days,

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Re: registry backup/restore=Startup Repair Infinite Loop
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2017, 02:25:15 am »
So do you not have a system image you can restore from ?

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Re: registry backup/restore=Startup Repair Infinite Loop
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2017, 06:27:33 am »
no unfortunately i do not, what can do now besides clean install ?
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Re: registry backup/restore=Startup Repair Infinite Loop
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2017, 06:44:31 am »
It's just that in the article you linked for doing what you did advised to create a system image, so I thought you may have continued with that practice.

Did none of the steps in the article I'd linked help ?