Windows 10 Dell Inspiron P26F locked in auto repair at boot up

[Dr.John05]

My laptop will not boot up. This happened after I did a windows update and choose update and reboot.

At startup it displays the dell logo then gives me the following message:



The operating system did not shut down cleanly.

Reconstructing Cache Metadata.

Please do not interrupt this process



Reading Packed Metadata.................................Done

Processing Delta Log Record............................0

Updating Packed Metadata...............................Done

Creating the Segment/Index Pairs…………….100%

Total number segment/index pairs……………2244606

Sorting Segment/Index pairs phase 1………..100%

Sorting Segment/Index pairs phase 2………..100%

Writing sorted Segment/Index Pairs………….100%

Total Heap Size…………………………………………..8768

Writing Segment Heap.........................................Done



Then I get the dots rotating in a circle.

After about 40 seconds the screen blanks then the above comes back and the following message shows up at the bottom of the screen



Preparing Automatic Repair



Then After about 15 seconds the screen blanks and the dell logo appears and then the dots appear again.



After about 40 secs the screen blanks and the cycle repeats



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I have tried several things recommended on help sites but none made any difference:

1) + clicking the F12 key when I get the first dell logo (dell splash screen)

2) + pressing Fn key and the power button when I get the first dell logo (Dell splash screen)

3) + Pressing the power key and holding it for 29 seconds after the laptop powers off and repeating this 3 times.

When nothing changed repeating it 3 times I tried repeating it 10 times but the cycle remained the same.


One time after doing third above I did get a message to press F12 for BIOS but before I pressed it the cycle continued.


Any other suggestions on how to fix this?

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