- What OS on that PC?
- What is shift-f8 assumed to do?
- A message about booting from an external drive is rather strange, assuming the hard disk works. So it's a pity you can't tell the details.
- What exactly is the "automatic startup loop"?
- What exactly are "a few of the troubleshooting fixes"? And why not *all* of the troubleshooting fixes, but just a few?
- Just a black screen means you don't even see the usual BIOS messages when it boot? Or does it mean something else?
- What exactly do you mean with "going to the BIOS and putting it in Legacy Mode" didn't work? That you couldn't enter the BIOS, that you coudn't put it in Legacy Mode while you were in the BIOS, or that it didn't solve your issue?
- Can you but from your Windows install disc or stick, the recovery drive you made or the recovery discs that came with the laptop or that you were invited to make? Or from a Linux disc or stick (free to make)?
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 330-14IGM, last night it was doing a black screen on start up after the Lenovo loading screen. After a few re boots I started whilst holding Shift+F8 and the Configuring windows update screen appeared. Let it do it’s thing and it took a while to boot up afterwards but got there in the end and used it to watch Netflix last night as normal. Fell asleep with it on and woke up to a screen saying something about booting from an external drive I think. After a re start the automatic repair screen came up and I was stuck on an automatic startup loop. Tried a few of the troubleshooting fixes that didn’t work and now it’s just a black screen on startup and nothing else. The LED’s are on but just black screen. Tried starting and holding F2 going to boot and putting in Legacy Mode this didn’t work either. Tried Shift+F8 and nothing happens. I need this computer for college live call on Monday and have no access to any other PC’s so any help would be greatly appreciated thanks so much for reading.
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