Breaking Out of the Windows 7 Boot Loop
Breaking Out of the Windows 7 Boot Loop The following recommendations/solutions could save you the headache when faced by a repeated boot loop encountered sometimes on the windows 7 operating system and could possibly work for older versions(Vista) and subsequently released windows versions. The reported issue sometimes occur due to corrupted windows files/malicious software. Tools needed: 1. A working DVD Drive 2. A Windows Installer/Repair Disk (DVD) 3. A Recovery partition, where a repair disk may be lacking 4. Average/fair understanding of computers Follow this easy steps: *In my case it was a corrupted winload.exe ( Windows Boot Loader is a small piece of software, called a system loader, that's started by BOOTMGR , the boot manager used in Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista operating systems . The job of winload.exe is to load ntoskrnl.exe, which is a core part of Windows.) Fix: I located a clean version of winload.exe from "x:wi...