Windows 8 spinning wheel

Rebooting out of Safe Mode, the virtual Windows 8 install was able to start normally, without any issues! As a last step, I rebooted the entire system, crossed my fingers, and Windows 8 made it past the spot that it was previously getting hung up on, and booted normally.

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Thanks for your feedback. Have you had a power failure or an electrical storm in your area on or about the time of the failure of your device that you know of? Where any significant changes made to the system just before the problem manifested that you know of? In a situation like this the more detailed and complete info the better for then others will be better able to help you, if and how, they can. Indeed, every third boot attempt reveals the "Preparing Automatic Repair" message, but then the spinning circle appears above the message and nothing else happens.

The circle of dots spins indefinitely and the Windows 10 Repair Environment never appears. Likewise, when I insert my Windows 10 installation DVD, the spinning circle appears and nothing else happens. No power failures or electrical storms. No changes made to the system though when I shut down four hours earlier, it took a bit longer than usual, leading me to believe that an automatic update may have been installed.

Was there an automatic update pushed out on March 1st? No warnings, beeps, or logged errors. The BIOS configuration appears to be unchanged. Drives are all recognized and the RAID 1 array shows both drives "functional. Again, I cannot get to the recovery menu.

All attempts to power up this machine end up at the infinite spinning dots. Same thing with the Windows 10 installation DVD - spinning dots. I cannot get to the recovery menu or even re-install Windows. The only change to this routine is that every third reboot produces the "Preparing Automatic Repair" message in Step 7, underneath the "Asus" logo. Otherwise, everything is the same. The routine continues from Step 8 to Step I'm loading the Acronis system diagnostics right now - long process.

If there's something wrong with my boot partition, hopefully it can correct it. About the author: Dennis Faas is the owner and operator of Infopackets. With over 30 years of computing experience, Dennis' areas of expertise are a broad range and include PC hardware, Microsoft Windows, Linux, network administration, and virtualization.

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Privacy Policy Terms of Service. Jump to Navigation. Search form Search. Infopackets Reader Bill W. My response: I connected with Bill using my remote desktop support service and observed the system. The first thing I did was right click on the task bar and selected "Task Manager". Once Task Manager was loaded, I clicked the "more details" button near the bottom left; this made the Task manager window bigger. This essentially sorts all the processes on the system to show which ones are eating the most CPU.

The theory here is that if a program is launching repeatedly, it should show up at the top of the list because it is causing the mouse pointer to spin. Also note that sometimes there is an option near the bottom of the Task Manager window to select "Show all processes" - this option must always be enabled. Once the tasks were sorted by CPU, I sat and patiently watched the processes run, until the next time the spinning cursor appeared.

To do so, I did a search by clicking on the Start menu, then typed in the process name: "HPNetworkCommunicator" without quotes. Once I HPNetworkCommunicator appeared in the list, I right clicked it and selected "Properties", as this would reveal where the file was located. I copied this path with the mouse, then opened up a File Explorer Windows Explorer window, then paste the path into the path field and pressed Enter on the keyboard.

I was now at the location of the HPNetworkCommunicator.