Black screen at start up, can't access drives

can you post a DIR of c:\ please?
Open cmd.exe from task manager
c:
cd \
dir /a > out.txt
copy out.txt to a device you can use to post it's contents

Perhaps you should start looking into something like my tutorial here: Install Windows 7 FAST without a DVD or USB device

That will allow you to create a new OS partition and install a fresh copy of Windows 7 quickly without impacting your existing installation or any of your user files. You can then decide if that's working well enough to make it your primary.

pantabulosin said:

baarod said:

can you post a DIR of c:\ please?
Open cmd.exe from task manager
c:
cd \
dir /a > out.txt
copy out.txt to a device you can use to post it's contents

Ok, I did not want to try the FAST method because I didn't know how to legally find an ISO of a Windows 7 disk, so I tried DIR again. This time, however, I tried to copy the output from the console and paste it into google docs so you could see it. I'm writing my steps here in case others read this thread.

dir C:\ /a

right click on the console->choose mark
left click and hold as if you were to choose multiple icons and create a box around the contens you want copied
Left click on the console (other things may work, that one just did the trick for me)
Open a google docs document and press ctrl+V

At any rate, here's DIR for C:\ /a

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...ac/edit?hl=en#

I think it didn't work last time because I can't use most programs right now, so whatever program is called to save the output into .txt killed the previous idea.I don't know if this is of any use.

You have two Windows directories. cd win and press the tab key and enter. Then try to cd into SysWOW64. If that works then that's your real Windows folder. If not cd.. and then cd win and press tab TWICE and enter. Then cd into SysWOW64.

Knowing how to get to your real Windows folder you can re-register the DLLs

pantabulosin said:

baarod said:

You have two Windows directories. cd win and press the tab key and enter. Then try to cd into SysWOW64. If that works then that's your real Windows folder. If not cd.. and then cd win and press tab TWICE and enter. Then cd into SysWOW64.

Knowing how to get to your real Windows folder you can re-register the DLLs

Apparently, at least part of my problem is that I don't have a SysWOW64 folder.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...sKY/edit?hl=en

it may still be in another directory if whatever hit me was nice, or maybe it was renamed or something, I'll look for it in Ubuntu and get back to you.

Thanks for replying once again.

And we're absolutely sure that Windows 7 64-bit is installed and not that the computer is advertised as 64-bit capable? The %windir% environment variable SHOULD point the REAL windows directory (we hope) so let's open cmd again and

cd %windir%\system32
for %a in (*.dll) do regsvr32.exe /s "%a"

Theoretically, since Windows sets %windir% it should be pointing to the correct Windows directory.

baarod said:

And we're absolutely sure that Windows 7 64-bit is installed and not that the computer is advertised as 64-bit capable? The %windir% environment variable SHOULD point the REAL windows directory (we hope) so let's open cmd again and

cd %windir%\system32
for %a in (*.dll) do regsvr32.exe /s "%a"

Theoretically, since Windows sets %windir% it should be pointing to the correct Windows directory.

Ok, it turns out that the Opera Browser is also a file browser, so I looked SysWOW 64 and it's on the "Windows " folder, with an addded space. Here's all that in the "windows " folder, with SysWOW64 highlighted in yellow.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Fo/edit?hl=en#

as for the %windir% thing. I couldn't tell if it did anything. Here's the output as I tried on the Windows folder and the "Windows " folder.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...us/edit?hl=en#

As an aside, I can open the SoftMaker Office Suite 2008, which is stored in C:/Program Files (x86)/ . I can also open documents (not XML microsoft office format, but .odf, .txt and I would imagine 97-2003 MS Office formats) I can also send files to myself via email, but I can't download them from my browser. I don't know if I could do this before trying all of this, but at least I know that some applications can still read and write to my C: drive. Now I wonder, could I edit any files using this office suite to repair whatever damage was done?

pantabulosin said:

baarod said:

And we're absolutely sure that Windows 7 64-bit is installed and not that the computer is advertised as 64-bit capable? The %windir% environment variable SHOULD point the REAL windows directory (we hope) so let's open cmd again and

cd %windir%\system32
for %a in (*.dll) do regsvr32.exe /s "%a"

Theoretically, since Windows sets %windir% it should be pointing to the correct Windows directory.

Ok, it turns out that the Opera Browser is also a file browser, so I looked SysWOW 64 and it's on the "Windows " folder, with an addded space. Here's all that in the "windows " folder, with SysWOW64 highlighted in yellow.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Fo/edit?hl=en#

as for the %windir% thing. I couldn't tell if it did anything. Here's the output as I tried on the Windows folder and the "Windows " folder.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...us/edit?hl=en#

As an aside, I can open the SoftMaker Office Suite 2008, which is stored in C:/Program Files (x86)/ . I can also open documents (not XML microsoft office format, but .odf, .txt and I would imagine 97-2003 MS Office formats) I can also send files to myself via email, but I can't download them from my browser. I don't know if I could do this before trying all of this, but at least I know that some applications can still read and write to my C: drive. Now I wonder, could I edit any files using this office suite to repair whatever damage was done?

Google tells me I don't have access to the second link. Since you've found syswow64 we need to re-reg in both c:\windows_\system32 and c:\windows_\syswow64_