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I have a 2018 Lenovo ideapad. It was working fine up until a few weeks ago when I downloaded the FXSound EQ and Sound Enhancer. Ever since then my laptop has been acting fucked up. The OS is lagging - It takes 30-60sec to open a file, it's slow to connect to wifi (takes around 10mins) and now today it won't boot at all. I started it up and it was saying "Preparing Automatic Repair" - I looked up troubleshooting instructions online and followed them, but my laptop kept going in a loop - same thing kept happening 3 times. NOW my laptop screen is black and it's loud - like it's trying to repair something. It's been like this for over 30mins and I'm getting really pissed off. WTF do I do? Do I let it keep trying to boot or should I shut it off and restart it? I don't have a boot CD (or even a CD/DVD drive on the computer) and I'm out of options.

Edit: After over an hour it finally told me what's wrong, it's either missing A Kernel is missing or contains errors

EDIT 2: It's the next day and I don't even want to touch my laptop because it's gonna make me really angry My patience for technical problems declines every year.

I have a 2018 Lenovo ideapad. It was working fine up until a few weeks ago when I downloaded the FXSound EQ and Sound Enhancer. Ever since then my laptop has been acting fucked up. The OS is lagging - It takes 30-60sec to open a file, it's slow to connect to wifi (takes around 10mins) and now today it won't boot at all. I started it up and it was saying "Preparing Automatic Repair" - I looked up troubleshooting instructions online and followed them, but my laptop kept going in a loop - same thing kept happening 3 times. NOW my laptop screen is black and it's loud - like it's trying to repair something. It's been like this for over 30mins and I'm getting really pissed off. WTF do I do? Do I let it keep trying to boot or should I shut it off and restart it? I don't have a boot CD (or even a CD/DVD drive on the computer) and I'm out of options. Edit: After over an hour it finally told me what's wrong, it's either missing [A Kernel is missing or contains errors](https://poal.co/static/images/ZAgpkd.jpg) EDIT 2: It's the next day and I don't even want to touch my laptop because it's gonna make me really angry My patience for technical problems declines every year.

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If you are running windoze, there may be a recovery partition, but before you atempt to recover it, back up everything you want to keep.do a restart and get into the bios, either f1 or enter key. look at the partitions on the drive and look for a recovery partition. my windows 10 has a menu for recovery but like you said ; it won't boot. you can get lenova recovery files here :https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht103653-lenovo-digital-download-recovery-service-ddrs-download-the-files-needed-to-create-a-lenovo-usb-recovery-key all is not lost, but can be frustrating. if you can remove the drive and copy everything with a sata wire , you won't lose everything before you restore to default.