Resolved. Do not know how or why.
All I can say is after many reboots and even full power cycling it did nothing but reboot at the windows logo. Leaving the drive in I used bios to boot a slave drive w/ linux and did
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb4
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb5
sudo...
Fixing a neighbors pc who's husband reciently passed. Currently it reboots a second or 2 after the blue windows logo appears. Alternates between attempting auto repair and no text. So now I can not even get into the refresh option and she has no install media besides the restore partition.
I...
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automatic repair
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hp envy
installation media
os recovery
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pc repair
reboot loop
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system repair
tech support
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ui refresh
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windows 8.1
windows logo
