My windows 8 machine won't boot. The system immediatly goes to startup repair and windows diagnosing.
nothing.
I've tried pressing pressing F8 before the icon appears.
Absolutely. Nothing.
I've tried resetting and refreshing and I've loaded my installation image onto a flash drive (YUMI) to try to see if some of Microsoft's debugging 'features' will actually work.
I get a system restore error code 0x80070005
I was running Avast antivirus, hamachi, some context-menu editor thing, and some other programs that fudged with the start-up sequence. Can anyone tell me how to *actually* start windows in safe mode, or something that will help. I'm frustrated and clueless.
** I've also tried going into the advanced boot settings to 'enable' safe mode, that, surprisingly, has even less of an effect that the other attempts.