Windows won't load! Please help!

I can only assume the worst then, as the PC is less than 3 months old and there is no way that my 750gb HDD is full.

I shall look again via Lucid Puppy, but what can be done otherwise?
Cheers chaps.

Stu

Thanks Golden, I'll crack on with that first thing in the morning.

I recall when the machine was functioning and starting acting strangely, trying to use system restore. There were no restore points available and couldn't go any further.

I'll check and clear a load of space tomorrow and fire it up and hope for the best!

You're a life saver!
Cheers guys,
Stu

Hi guys,
I fired up Lucid Puppy again and had a look at the files on the machine. There is no way the disk is full, but I deleted everything I thought was non essential.

A drive mounter program popped up and listed the available drives, including the USB drive:

Code:

Pmount Puppy Drive Mounter
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sda1 ntfs 200m 171m free
sda2 ntfs 653.0G 592.8G free

I assume the sda2 ntfs is my main drive, and it looks pretty empty.
After I deleted a load of files, this is what the mount program showed

Code:

Pmount Puppy Drive Mounter
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sda1 ntfs 200m 171m free
sda2 ntfs 653.0g 607.4g free

As you can see, the drive is quite empty now.

I tried to load Windows after this, which failed, with the same black screen after the Lenovo logo screen with blinking cursor for a second or two, then nothing.

I then booted from the other USB drive (Windows repair drive with the .iso installed), and followed the command prompt instructions by Golden. The same as before was displayed:

Code:

X:Sources>diskpart

Microsoft Diskpart version 6.1.7601
Copyright <C> 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: MINWINPC

DISKPART> list disk
Disk ###  Status   Size    Free       Dyn       Gpt
--------- ------   -----  ------     ------   ------- 
Disk 0    Online   698GB  1024KB
Disk 1    Online   3852MB  0KB

DISKPART>

It still states that the drive has 1024KB of space left, which I don't believe to be the case now

Agh!
Thanks,
Stu

I think diskpart is just trying to tell you that there's only 1024 KB of unallocated/unpartitioned space on the drive (not free allocated). You'd have to dig a little deeper to find actual free space within the volumes/partitions.

In diskpart type:

select disk 0 (where 0 represents the number of the disk you're interested in)
detail disk
select volume # (where # represents the number of the volume you're interested in)
detail volume

You'll see free space on the volume at the bottom of the output.

I went through what sibbil said and it worked fine, cheers! It states the volumes are healthy and things look OK, and...

Code:

Volume Capacity     :652GB
Volume Free Space   :607GB

This is good news right?!

Thanks,
Stu

I've made a huge blunder.

I checked the "license.rtf" file in C:\Windows\System32 via Lucid Puppy and found that I have Windows Home Basic, and not Premium like I stated originally. Not entirely my fault, as the shop said it had Premium installed.

Looking back through My Digital Life.info, where Golden thankfully found me a link to the Premium .iso, I cannot find a 'Home Basic' version of this .iso download.
Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life

I found another article about downloading the Professional .iso file, then being able able to install Home Basic afterward.
Legal Download from DigitalRiver: Windows 7 SP1, 13 languages

Any ideas?

Thank you for your patience guys. My bad!

Stu

We have a tutorial on these forums for creating a universal disc. It may be helpful to you: Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create