Win 7 partial boot
Dell laptop, Win 7...
Power on...
I get "Starting Windows"...
The colored balls float around...
Then I have a black screen, normal cursor and the circle that indicates something is hapenning...(like the hourglass in XP) shows for about 2 seconds...
Then nothing else happens...
I wind up with a black screen with a cursor which moves with the touch pad...
Pulled HD and put it on another comptuer...did virus scan, clean, MBAM, clean...ran chkdsk...
Put it back in the laptop...
I get the exact same results as before...
Thinking bad MBR, etc...
Thoughts...and ideas appreciated...
Power on...
I get "Starting Windows"...
The colored balls float around...
Then I have a black screen, normal cursor and the circle that indicates something is hapenning...(like the hourglass in XP) shows for about 2 seconds...
Then nothing else happens...
I wind up with a black screen with a cursor which moves with the touch pad...
Pulled HD and put it on another comptuer...did virus scan, clean, MBAM, clean...ran chkdsk...
Put it back in the laptop...
I get the exact same results as before...
Thinking bad MBR, etc...
Thoughts...and ideas appreciated...
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Yes the fix MBR is about the same, however if there's registry error(which most likely for your case); the fixmbr will not work...
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Itguy565...
Didn;t work...:>(
Ok...googled all over this issue...only thing I didn;t do is a repair install...I have not done a Win 7 repair install...
a little unsure of myself on this one....so I decided to do a complete install and that will fix the issue for sure....(I hope)...
Couple hours later I did the re-install and so far things are working great...
thanx for the help guys...
Didn;t work...:>(
Ok...googled all over this issue...only thing I didn;t do is a repair install...I have not done a Win 7 repair install...
a little unsure of myself on this one....so I decided to do a complete install and that will fix the issue for sure....(I hope)...
Couple hours later I did the re-install and so far things are working great...
thanx for the help guys...
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Guys...I split points out between the 3 of you...
You tried to help, had good suggestions...I did all of them...but had to rebuild...
Appreciate your time...
You tried to help, had good suggestions...I did all of them...but had to rebuild...
Appreciate your time...
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And it boots the same in normal or safe mode...
Have not yet tried Cd repair...hoping something easier...
Do I fix MBR the same way in Win 7 as in XP...???