Windows 7 - Windows 7 ultimate x64 suddenly won't boot, even in safe modes.

Spoonerz · 09-30-2011

Woke up this morning, turned on my pc after using it the previous night, went downstairs came back up to find my computer rebooting itself, thought "that's odd", left it a few minutes thinking it might have been a windows update or something. It got to the windows logo, then went to a black screen with the loading mouse symbol.

Restarted the system a bunch of times, tried the safe modes with no luck. Tried recovery, no luck. Tried to repair from windows 7 installation disk, again no luck.

Frustrating as hell as it's a clean install (beginning of the week) after having issues previously with blue screens.

Starting to thinking i might be hardware related, even though the system was only bought beginning of august :/.

Could also just be the disk i've got for windows...

Any help would be appreciated.

bassfisher6522 · 09-30-2011

From what your describing, it would be my guess that your hard drive has become corrupted or is crashing or crashed. Keep trying to load up OS and if your successful then try this..... Check your hard disk for errors

linnemeyerhere · 09-30-2011

System spec's could also be very helpful. I does indeed sound like the boot drive is the first place you should target.

Spoonerz · 09-30-2011

It doesn't look like im going to be able to get windows to boot up... any other suggestions? or am i going to have to just reinstall :/?

I guess i could just reinstall windows and do that once it's booting again?

But i would rather that be a last case scenario.

Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
Corsair 2x2GB DDR3 1333MHz
XFX HD 6870 1GB GDDR5
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB

alphanumeric · 09-30-2011

What do you mean by? > "Could also just be the disk i've got for windows..."

Spoonerz · 09-30-2011

I got it from a torrent, wasn't sure if i was allowed to say on here aha

theog · 09-30-2011

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alphanumeric · 09-30-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Spoonerz

I got it from a torrent, wasn't sure if i was allowed to say on here aha

OK, that begs the question, where did you get your product code from?
Seeing the problems you are having I wouldn't trust that install media. If you have a legal product code/license that you paid for, you can use a borrowed DVD to do the install. If its not the correct version you can make it a universal disk.

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Spoonerz · 09-30-2011

The OS i've got has worked and is still working for other people, so im pretty sure it's not that, or at least entirely.

Is there anything else that could cause what's happening?

Is there a way to check if my hard disk is failing without having to have my system boot properly?

alphanumeric · 09-30-2011

So you're using an illegal pirated version of Windows 7 and looking for help?
If so you'll get no help from me.

Windows 7 - Windows 7 ultimate x64 suddenly won't boot, even in safe modes.

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