My hp pavilion laptop won't start up. It keeps getting stopped at the screen before I enter my username and password to log in. There's a sign that just keeps saying
Please wait... (on top)
Windows is starting up....
And it's stuck there, it won't get anywhere.
I tried using the recovery disk, running chkdsk /r and fixboot but nothing happened, it's still the same thing
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