Automatic Repair – Fixing Windows 8 Repair Failures

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I ran into an issue on Windows 8.1 that can be fixed (according to articles I've read online) by running automatic repair, so that's what I tried to do.

Each time I run it, automatic repair fails and says, "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC"…and then it says it wrote this log file:

D:\Windows\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt

This doesn't make much sense to me, because that log file is in a D: drive which doesn't map to a hard disk. My D: drive is a CD-drive, not a hard disk. I'm not sure how I could check this log file and find the underlying problem here to fix automatic repair…when I check the same log file in my C: drive it doesn't contain any errors…probably because it logs my last boot into Windows…so is there even some way to check this file while in the repair screens?

Best Answer

Obviously the D: drive seems not to be the one you expect.

When I start my Windows from a virtual hard disk, all drives are interchanged as well.

In the repair menu/screen, you can hit Shift+F10 on your keyboard to get a command prompt.

Use the following commands to determine your hard disks:

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: My-PC

DISKPART> list volume

Since I don't know the exact problem, here are some solution guesses that may help. From that command prompt you can manually repair your system with:

Repair system files:

sfc /scannow

rebuilding the BCD

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd

Scanning your disk for problems:

chkdsk D: /f

where D: refers to your system partition.

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