Microsoft disabled the recovery mode key (F8) and replaced it with some automatic detection algorithms.
These detection algorithms begin every couple of times you boot up but it doesn't complete the boot process. I can get that far. However, I can not get to any menus.
Is there anything else I could try before I reformat the drive and try again?
DEP
. Doing that on Win8 results in a broken (non-booting system). Lesson learned: Don't DO that. ;-)safe mode
, and not the Recovery Console included in older versions of Windows. Which loads even less thansafe mode
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