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x64 Hangs on "Starting Windows": Run Out of Ideas
This morning my computer greeted me with a static Starting Windows screen. It had been on all night and must have suffered a crash of some kind but all my attempts to start it have come to naught so far.
OS Win 7 Ultimate (64 bit)
CPU Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.8Ghz
Motherboard P7P55D LE
Memory 4Gb DDR3
Graphics Card(s) HIS ATI Radion HD5700
Displays 2 x Viewsonic 1912w
Hard Drives 1 x WD 1Tb SATA; 2 x Seagate 320Gb SATA; 1 x 250Gb IDE
PSU Coolermaster 600w
The OS is on one of the Seagates in a partition of 150Gb and my data on the 1Tb drive F.
I have run the Windows Recovery Tools from a bootable CD with these results:
- Startup Fixer reports no problem but does no good either
- System Restore says it's completed but still no bootup
- Using the Command Window to run Chkdsk on C: reports no issues but Drive L (the other Seagate) finds multiple problems with unreadable sectors. I haven't run the /F switch yet since I can't see how this can be related. It's a drive devoted to media and worked fine yesterday.
I have backups of my data and a System Image of drive C (two months old, sadly) but am reluctant to restore the image because I don't know if or how it might affect my data on drive F - will a restored system on C leave my files on F intact? I believe my backups are OK but would sooner not put them to the test.
Any suggestions for a next step would be much appreciated.