How to Fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC

How to Fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC: Windows 10 is the latest operating system offered by Microsoft and with each Windows upgrade Microsoft is trying their best to overcome the limitation and shortcomings of various issues found in earlier versions of Windows. But there are some errors that are common to all versions of Windows including boot failure being the major one. Boot failure can happen with any version of Windows including Windows 10.

Automatic repair is generally able to fix the boot failure error, this is a built-in option that comes along with Windows itself. When Windows 10 running system fails to boot, the Automatic Repair option tries to repair Windows automatically. In most cases, automatic repair fixes various issues related to boot failures but like any other program, it also has its limitations, and sometimes Automatic Repair fails to work.

Automatic Repair fails because there are some errors or corrupted or missing files in your operating system installation that prevent Windows from starting correctly and if Automatic Repair fails then you won’t be able to get into Safe Mode. Often a failed automatic repair option will show you some kind of error message like this one:

Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC. 
Press "Advanced options" to try other options to repair your PC or "Shut down" to turn off your PC.
Log file: C:WINDOWSSystem32LogfilesSrtSrtTrail.txt

In a situation when Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC, Bootable installation media or Recovery Drive/System Repair Disc are helpful in such cases. Let’s get started and see step by step how you can fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC error.

Note: For each and every step below you need to have Bootable installation media or Recovery Drive/System Repair Disc and if you don’t have one then create one. If you don’t want to download the entire OS from the website then you use your friend’s PC to create the disc using this link or you need to download official Windows 10 ISO but for that, you need to have a working internet connection and PC.

IMPORTANT: Never convert a Basic disk that contains your operating system to a Dynamic disk, as it could make your system unbootable.

How to open Command Prompt at Boot in Windows 10

NOTE: You need to open Command Prompt at Boot a lot in order to fix various issues.

a) Put in the Windows installation media or Recovery Drive/System Repair Disc and select your language preferences, and click Next.

b) Click Repair your computer at the bottom.

c) Now choose Troubleshoot and then Advanced Options.

d) Select Command Prompt (With networking) from the list of options.

Fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC

Method 1: Fix boot and rebuild BCD

1. Open the Command prompt and type the following commands one by one & hit enter:

bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot

2. After completing each command successfully type exit.

3. Restart your PC to see if you boot to windows.

4. If you get an error in the above method then try this:

bootsect /ntfs60 C: (replace the drive letter with your boot drive letter)

5. And again try the above commands which failed earlier.

Method 2: Use Diskpart to fix corrupted file system

1. Again go to Command Prompt and type: diskpart

2. Now type these commands in Diskpart: (don’t type DISKPART)

DISKPART> select disk 1
DISKPART> select partition 1
DISKPART> active
DISKPART> extend filesystem
DISKPART> exit

3. Now type the following command:

 bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
 bootrec.exe /fixmbr
 bootrec.exe /fixboot

4. Restart to apply changes and see if you’re able to fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC error.

Method 3: Use Check Disk Utility

1. Go to command prompt and type the following: chkdsk /f /r C:

2. Now restart your PC to see if the problem is fixed or not.

Method 4: Recover Windows registry

1. Enter the installation or recovery media and boot from it.

2. Select your language preferences and click next.

3. After selecting language press Shift + F10 to command prompt.

4. Type the following command in the Command Prompt:

cd C:windowssystem32logfilessrt (change your drive letter accordingly)

5. Now type this to open the file in notepad: SrtTrail.txt

6. Press CTRL + O then from file type select “All files” and navigate to C:windowssystem32 then right-click CMD and select Run as administrator.

7. Type the following command in cmd: cd C:windowssystem32config

8. Rename Default, Software, SAM, System, and Security files to .bak to back up those files.

9. To do so type the following command:

rename DEFAULT DEFAULT.bak
rename SAM SAM.bak
rename SECURITY SECURITY.bak
rename SOFTWARE SOFTWARE.bak
rename SYSTEM SYSTEM.bak

10. Now type the following command in cmd:

copy c:windowssystem32configRegBack c:windowssystem32config

11. Restart your PC to see if you can boot to Windows.

Method 5: Repair Windows Image

1. Open Command Prompt and enter the following command:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

2. Press enter to run the above command and wait for the process to complete, usually, it takes 15-20 minutes.

NOTE: If the above command doesn’t work then try this: Dism /Image:C:offline /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:testmountwindows or Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:testmountwindows /LimitAccess

3. After the process is completed restart your PC.

4. Reinstall all the windows drivers and fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC error.

Method 6: Delete the problematic file

1. Access Command Prompt again and enter the following command:

cd C:WindowsSystem32LogFilesSrt
SrtTrail.txt

2. When the file opens you should see something like this:

Boot critical file c:windowssystem32driverstmel.sys is corrupt.

3. Delete the problematic file by entering the following command in cmd:

cd c:windowssystem32drivers
del tmel.sys

NOTE: Don’t delete drivers which are essential for windows to load the operating system

4. Restart to see if the issue is fixed if not continue to the next method.

Method 7: Disable Automatic Startup Repair Loop

1. Open Command Prompt and enter the following command:

NOTE: Only disable if you are in Automatic Startup Repair Loop

bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled No

2. Restart and Automatic Startup Repair should be disabled.

3. If you need to again enable it, enter the following command in cmd:

bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled Yes

4. Reboot to apply changes.

Method 8: Set correct values of device partition and osdevice partition

1. In Command Prompt type the following and press enter: bcdedit

2. Now find the values of device partition and osdevice partition and make sure their values are correct or set to correct partition.

3. By default value is C: because Windows comes pre-installed on this partition only.

4. If by any reason it is changed to any other drive then enter the following commands and press Enter after each one:

bcdedit /set {default} device partition=c:
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=c:

Note: If you have installed your windows on any other drive make sure you use that one instead of C:

5. Reboot your PC to save changes and fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC error.

Method 9: Disable driver signature enforcement

1. Put in the Windows installation media or Recovery Drive/System Repair Disc and select your language preferences, and click Next.

2. Click Repair your computer at the bottom.

3. Now choose Troubleshoot and then Advanced Options.

4. Choose Startup Settings.

5. Restart your PC and press the number 7 (If 7 isn’t working then relaunch the process and try different numbers).

Method 10: Last option is to perform Refresh or Reset

Again insert Windows 10 ISO then select your language preferences and click Repair your computer at the bottom.

1. Choose Troubleshooting when the Boot menu appears.

2. Now choose between the option Refresh or Reset.

3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Reset or Refresh.

4. Make sure you have the latest OS disc (preferably Windows 10) in order to complete this process.

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By now you must have successfully fix Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC but if you still have any questions regarding this guide please feel free to ask them in the comment section.