Stuck on Preparing Automatic Repair

[VDV]

Hello. I have an Acer laptop and yesterday when I boot it up I got this preparing automatic repair screen. I decided to leave it on and wait but by the time I returned it was still on that screen. I kept shutting it down and booting up again an trying to access to boot menu by clicking F12 but it doesn’t seem to work. Force shutting down over and over again also didn’t do anything. Is there any ways I could bypass this screen without having to take it to a repair shop?
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[Bruce]

Usually a good indication that it cannot detect your drive, or the boot sector on the drive is unreadable, or Windows system files are corrupt.

First thing, do you have the data on that drive backed up?
If not, you’ll need to remove the drive, install it into an external enclosure and connect that enclosure to another PC.

Then you could either replace the drive and reload Windows, or try reloading Windows on the current drive and see if it works.

[Bruce]

@VDV - where we at?

[Bruce]

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