With Windows 8, there is a Windows Recovery Environment, which is a partition on the drive with tools to help you recover without needing to boot off a startup DVD. A lot of other people have had these problems as the key error phrases show up in numerous forums, but we realized many of these solutions applied to Windows 7 or earlier and many refer to the older boot system rather than the newer UEFI boot system used on our system. We have done much research and have made many attempts to fix this, but have not yet found the way to fix it. Two days ago, it got into an Automatic Repair Loop.
We have a Windows 8.1 installation on an HP 23-g009 AMD Quad core all-in-one computer.