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June 2, 2014 at 03:53 PM
kasper.wichmann

Windows 8 boot loop

by kasper.wichmann . Updated 12 years ago

Hi,

I wanted to update from Win 8 to 8.1 but the update failed and my laptop is now stuck in a continuous boot loop.

Samsumg logo comes on, windows logo comes on and I get a blue screen that my PC ran into a critical problem and needs to restart. This loop continues and I cannot access the boot menu and open in safe mode.

I have tried F4 (advised by Samsung) Shift F8 (advised by Microsoft), and delete. In all cases by just tapping the keys as the laptop boots up and keeping the keys down, Nothing seems to work. I understand this may be due to the fact that SSD and Win 8 now has something called fast boot, so I have very little time to actually access the boot menu.

Does anyone have solutions, tips, tricks, hints.

Very grateful for any help, as my last files have not been backed up for the last week.

Thanks

Kasper

Windows 8. Samsung Series 9, SSD 256GB

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