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Toshiba P75 in "preparing automatic repair" loop

tking2016

Commendable
Nov 9, 2016
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Hi, after sifting through many threads about this problem I'm still not getting anywhere. I can run recovery from the boot menu but it goes nowhere. I have a recovery CD and a USB but when I choose them in the boot menu nothing happens. I also disable secure boot. I don't care about the data at this point, just want it to boot up. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 

I needed to make a change in the BIOS to allow me to boot from a USB drive and re-install windows. Thanks for the reply