Fixing Windows 10 Automatic Repair Loop

By default, in case a stop error occurs during system boot on Windows (blue screen of death, BSOD), an automatic restart is performed. To diagnose the problem, in this case, the administrator must analyze the dump file, which is not very convenient. It is much easier to see the error code and the name of the failed component on the BSOD screen. However, in Windows 7 and later, after an automatic restart, the Automatic Repair component is started, which attempts to fix common errors that make your Windows can’t boot normally.

How to Fix/Disable Windows 10 Automatic Repair Loop?

Tip. Some novice users believe that the BIOS/UEFI is automatically rebooting the computer in case of a failure and try to disable the automatic restart in the BIOS. However, automatic reboot is a feature of the Windows operating system and you can’t disable it in BIOS.

Messages Preparing Automatic Repair or Automatic Repair Could Not Repair Your PC

Sometimes the Automatic Repair function doesn’t work properly, the computer restarts and the Automatic Repair starts again. Thus, your computer can get stuck in Windows 10 automatic repair loop, and starts displaying the message Preparing Automatic Repair or Automatic repair could not repair your PC.

You can disable the automatic restart from the Windows Control Panel. Go to the All Control Panel Items > System, in the left menu press Advanced system settings.

On the Advanced tab, in the Startup and Recovery section, click on Settings button:

In new window under the System Failure section uncheck the Automatic restart:

Click OK to save the changes.

You can also disable automatic reboot using the registry. Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl. Find the AutoReboot parameter and change its value to “0”:

You can also change the value of the registry parameter with the following command:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl" /v AutoReboot /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

This is a universal method, which is suitable for any version of the Windows operating system.

If the system reboots endlessly and doesn’t allow to change its settings, you must disable the automatic restart at startup.

After several unsuccessful attempts to boot the system, you can see the message Preparing Automatic Repair on Windows 10:

Then Diagnosing your PC:

In the window that opens, click on Advanced options:

Instead of a reboot, you will see “Select an action” window. Click on Troubleshoot:

Then select Advanced Options:

And Startup Settings:

In the window that opens, simply click on the Restart button:

The computer will restart and the Startup Setting window will open. Select Disable automatic restart after failure by pressing F9:

After that, the computer should reboot and the BSOD screen should appear.

How to Fix Preparing Automatic Repair Error?

To fix the boot error, try the following actions:

1. If you were able to boot your Windows in Safe Mode, open a command prompt and run the following command to perform the system image integrity check:

   DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

2. In most cases, to fix the automatic repair loop on Windows 10, you’ll need a boot/installation disk with Windows 10, or you need to boot your PC into the WinRE environment and run the command prompt (Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Command Prompt). If you booted the computer from the Windows 10 installation disc, you can start the command prompt by pressing the Shift + F10 on the first installation screen.
   In the command prompt window that opens, you need to check the hard disk for damaged files and blocks using the chkdsk command. To check all drives, run the command:

   chkdsk /f /r

3. You can disable the start of Automatic Repair on Windows 10 startup by running the command:

   bcdedit /set recoveryenabled NO

4. In some cases, the cause of the problem is some damages in the system registry, and because of that Windows can’t normally boot. You can try to replace the registry files with files from the backup directory (created automatically when the computer shutdown correctly). Execute the command and reboot your device:

   copy c:\windows\system32\config\RegBack* c:\windows\system32\config

5. To analyze the cause of the boot errors, try to open the file C:\Windows\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt and analyze the errors in it. Perhaps it will contain useful information about the faulty component or driver.

That’s all! We hope this was useful and helped you to fix problems with Windows 10 Automatic Repair loop.

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