Windows 10 Creators Edition - automatic repair endless reboot

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roytom wrote: »

Thanks for all your effort on this but I think its now a last cause - I've copied my files off onto a USB hard drive using the command prompt and Xcopy and they seem ok.

Now how can I reinstall Windows from scratch? I made a USB boot drive when I first got the laptop but when I use this is just points to the Win 10 defective install on the hard drive and doesn't work.

What I need is to reinstall windows, prefereably 8.1, from scratch - but how can I do this please.

Just to be clear, neither Refresh your PC nor Reset your PC work - they both show an error and won't proceed.
Thanks again

If you followed the instruction in my previous post, you would already have bootable USB media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVraydLORf4

WAYT

en-gb_windows_10_multiple_editions_version_1703_updated_march_2017_x64_dvd_10194881.iso

https://rufus.akeo.ie

Use GPT as indicated. You may need to change to NTFS because of the size of the image.

roytom

Thanks for all the help and replies, its greatly appreciated.

In the end I finally got the laptop's original rescue disk to do a Reset My PC targeting the old version of Windows 10, not the update as it refused to touch that.

It wouldn't do the save my files option only the rebuild from scratch version but it only did the rebuild on the partition where Windows was located and left my data partition with my files on unaffected.

Less than perfect, but better than nothing.

But it said on the selection that Windows 10 would be rebuilt but it went right back to Windows 8.0, which was on the laptop when delivered.

I wonder what happens if the whole hard drive has been wiped?

As advised by MS I updated to Win 8.1 but tonnes of the device drivers were missing in Device Manager - I've found most of these on ASUS's website but the only one that has defeated me are the High Definition Audio Device (2 entries, one is ok the other has the yellow warning sign) - details say device cannot start. I've tried all the Audio drivers from the ASUS site but none work.

Apart from that everything, so far, appears to be working ok. But its not Windows 10....

WAYT

roytom wrote: »

Thanks for all the help and replies, its greatly appreciated.

In the end I finally got the laptop's original rescue disk to do a Reset My PC targeting the old version of Windows 10, not the update as it refused to touch that.

It wouldn't do the save my files option only the rebuild from scratch version but it only did the rebuild on the partition where Windows was located and left my data partition with my files on unaffected.

Less than perfect, but better than nothing.

But it said on the selection that Windows 10 would be rebuilt but it went right back to Windows 8.0, which was on the laptop when delivered.

I wonder what happens if the whole hard drive has been wiped?

As advised by MS I updated to Win 8.1 but tonnes of the device drivers were missing in Device Manager - I've found most of these on ASUS's website but the only one that has defeated me are the High Definition Audio Device (2 entries, one is ok the other has the yellow warning sign) - details say device cannot start. I've tried all the Audio drivers from the ASUS site but none work.

Apart from that everything, so far, appears to be working ok. But its not Windows 10....

If you created the installation media in post #13, use it to upgrade; http://www.thewindowsclub.com/clean-install-or-upgrade-to-windows-10-using-windows-10-iso

Frozen_up_north

While it's a little too late, I use Acronis True Image and it's saved me a lot of work when "upgrading" Windows 10 and finding drivers haven't been updated by the vendor...

I have "original" builds saved and major updates too. I've done a complete restore a few times with no issues. Beware of incremental backups, one bad link in the chain and they are no use.

No doubt others will have their favourite recovery software too.
https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/personal/computer-backup/