Stuck with recovery

What model of Dell? Ensure that its powered off completely and not on standby. Hold down the power button for a couple minutes.

Hi,

The model is Inspiron 5720.  I tried the holding down the power button but that didn't do anything.

Oh and I have windows 8.

Guess I'm stuck with a big paper weight!!!!

Do you get the Dell BIOS screen before the Windows 8 recovery screen? Have you tried a USB keyboard?

I've tried that just takes me back to the this pc needs to be repaired screen. I've tried all the f key. a billion times and still have the blue screen. I've done factory installes before so. I know the feel.  

I was doing a new install and it was stuck so I turned it off and that is when I got the pc needs to be repaired came up

I don't think anything is wrong with my keyboard, if that's what you mean.

Thanks for reply, NAtakuc4

Remove the AC adapter, remove the battery. Hold down the power button for at least 30 s. Then preplace the battery and AC adapter. Power on the system do you see the Dell logo (if so press F12).

I tried the a billion times also,,,,,,do you think my hard drive died when I shut it off?

The problem is you aren't getting to the Dell diagnostics so you can't even press F12 to run diagnostics.

You can try removing the HDD and the RAM and then powering up the system up and down. Then reinsert them and see if you can access the Dell BIOS.

Okay I'll try that and get back to you,,,,thanks so much

Still get the pc needs to be repaired screen ,,,file windows system32 winload.efi.   error code 0xc0000225

Sighs

Noones evver had this problem, or know how to fix it?

Do you get a flashing Dell screen before this?

No I was doing a factory reinstall and it was turned off, when I turned my computer back on I got the pc needs to be repaired screen..  The only thing wrong before this was my CD/dvdcdrive was dying.

Try to remove the HDD and RAM and then power it up (without the HDD or RAM). Then power it down.

Then reinsert the HDD and RAM. Attempt to power it up and press F12.