I would guess you are seeing some damage to the hard drive. I would use the
Command prompt option on the recovery menu to run the command:
chkdsk /R
Then the startup repair might work.
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Mark L. Ferguson
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> Hello,
>
> I have a Vista computer that always boots into the recovery options and
> trys
> to repair the operating system. How can I stop this from happening?
>
> Even after repairing it does not try to boot normally!
>
> Safe mode does the same thing.
>
> Using bcdedit the RECOVERYENABLED is set to YES, how do I set this to NO?
>
> The computer failed to boot in the first place because of a thrid party
> service, normally I disable the service in safe mode but now the recovery
> options seem to be getting in the way.
>
> Peter