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Win7 hangs at startup / won't go further than 'Starting Windows' scree
Hello,
This morning I tried to start my Acer Aspire M3710 (had used it yesterday without a problem), but it wouldn't boot. Everytime I got to the 'starting windows' screen, the screen froze after the animation had finished.
I've since tried restarting in safe mode (hangs at disk.sys), last known good configuration,... - to no avail.
I've tried startup repair - to no avail.
The error message I got started like this:
I am now trying the Seagate Seatools to see if there's a hard drive issue. Short test wouldn't run, so I'm trying the long test, but I wanted to already post this, so that if I would be taking the completely wrong way to tackle the issue, you might be able to tell me to approach the issue differently.Problem event name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
The PC is less than two years old and hasn't been connected to the net for half a year (ruling out viruses e.a. in my opinion).
If any one of you might have advice on what to try, that'd be awesome.
Thanks in advance