![]() Alternatively, go into your local newsagents and buy a magazine with a DVD loaded with them or get one directly from a Distro Site. Google for how to use them - it is very logical. Opens a new window and Opens a new window. If you want to load a Linux Distro to a USB stick from within Windows then You can use Rufus or Unetbootin. In any event most people have to google command line instructions anyhow. So don't be put off by worrying that you do not know the command line. In fact most Linux Distros have very good GUIs but with experience the command line is often quicker. Unfortunately, people often explain how to do things in Linux using the command line which is very off putting for the uninitiated. You can browse the more popular ones here Opens a new window. The various versions of Linux OS's are called Distros and there are more than 300 of them. It have a friendly GUI? I'm hopeless with command line Linux - it's a You asked about Linux, "I''ve not heard of the Linux Distro thing before - is that similar? Does OR, you could download a GParted live CD and use that, it's pretty easy. You can delete the contents of the disk from command line using DISM, When the Windows repair offers a link to repair your computer, select it and go to Command Line. To quote a post, click 'Reply' directly beneath the post you want to quote. On a completely different topic - on this site, how do I quote someone's post in a reply? When I click on 'Quote Post' it inserts my initial post, not the previous person's reply. I've not heard of the Linux Distro thing before - is that similar? Does it have a friendly GUI? I'm hopeless with command line Linux - it's a black art to me :) However, although I booted the laptop from the USB stick, when I selected Parted Magic from the menu it claimed that it couldn't be found, so I guess something went amiss in the stick creation process. I did try and create the USB drive equivalent of the Universal Boot CD last thing yesterday in order to get at Parted Magic (I think that's what it's called) in order to vape the disk completely. Yes I did run the diagnostics and it didn't find any problems. The only thing I can think of to try next is to run through a new Windows 10 setup from a boot USB stick, get to the point where you select the target drive, nuke everything I see, back out of the install and then try the Veeam re-image again? This isn't a virus (although I regard Windows 10 as being close to one.) but maybe the problem's resilience to a disk re-image gives a clue to somebody out there as to what needs to be nuked/reset, where it is and how to get to it? How can it survive a disk re-image? I've only ever seen similar behaviour on a PC with a rootkit virus and that required a special utility to clear it off. In the end I re-imaged the laptop disk from an old Veeam Endpoint disk image I took of the laptop and stored to external USB disk. bootrec commands (bar the /fixboot switch which always gave me 'Access Denied'), copying files out of the Regback folder et al but nothing worked. None of the other recovery options work either. When I do that and try to get at the restore points it claims that there are no restore points available - and I'm sure there were. It then announces that it couldn't repair the laptop and the options are to Shut Down or go to the Advanced/Recovery options. ![]() I've got a Dell laptop running Windows 10 which is stuck in a boot loop whereby on startup it claims to be 'Preparing Automatic Repair'.
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