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Windows 10 boot hangs on “Preparing Automatic Repair.” “bootrec /fixboot” Access is Denied
Dear community, We have a Windows 10 1709 machine (Dell Optiplex 5050) in our office that starts up and goes directly to Windows Automatic Repair. Upon closer inspection, I discovered two "Window...
Is this solved in the end?
- I had the same. Its a master boot record virus. Clean Boot up with a write protected setup medium in usb port. Virus infects all internal drives even not inititialized and new exept in raid. It is Loaded in ram at boottime reading all internal single drive ports first sector by bios.
Start setup and choose repair. Then command prompt. Select all available volumes one by one and do bootrec.exe /fixmbr.
So x:\ cd c:
Bootrec.exe /fixmbr
Cd d:
Bootrec.exe /fixmbr
Cd e:
Bootrec.exe /fixmbr
And so on until you fixed all present mbr's.
Do not reset but switch off and wait a minute.
