Hi there, I'm reaching out because I'm concerned about this. Last night I tried to check a laptop that, as the title says, gets stuck in a loop on the boot screen. It stays like that for minutes; sometimes it restarts on its own and goes to the advanced options boot screen, but that doesn’t load either. In fact, when I force it into that option, after a while it throws the (device_pnp_watchdog) error, restarts, and goes back to the cycle.
I tried accessing the command prompt using a bootable USB drive with the Windows installation, and I ran the standard “scannow” commands. I think it reported that there were corrupted files, but I used the available commands to “repair” them—in theory (it didn’t work)—and it kept looping. I tried the other available options: uninstalling recent updates and repairing startup. I should mention that this laptop isn’t mine, so I don’t have a backup of how to use it.
The laptop is an HP, and I read somewhere on Microsoft support that certain HP models suffer from a similar issue with the touchpad, which I found curious.
But anyway, I want to see if I’ve overlooked anything so I can avoid having to format it. Besides, I seem to recall a couple of users who also couldn’t format theirs xd