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Windows won't boot, even after reinstall
A couple weekends ago when I was using my laptop, I fell asleep and awoke to find that it had turned itself off. I rebooted it to find that after the BIOS screen, nothing happened: I just got a blank screen with a cursor. I have seen this thread but unlike the fellow there, I had no problems at all just doing a clean install from a USB drive, as I'd done the same only a week or two before and didn't exactly have much data to lose. The install went completely fine, including the two restarts required, right up to the "Welcome" screen after connecting to a network, upon which it went to "Shutting down", did so, and I was once again back where I'd started, with the blank screen and flashing, immobile cursor and nothing else. I've tried re-creating my bootable USB drive, and the sfc /scannow command in Windows Repair options wouldn't run, saying that I have a process already running that requires Windows to restart (which I can't do, and which doesn't go away even after yet another reinstall). I've tried reformatting and recreating the partition (I have just the one) before installing as well.
The laptop is fairly old: a four-year old Acer Aspire:
2GB RAM
Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
Nvidia 7000 (256 MB)
All I know off the top of my head; will give more info if it's needed. Because I was able to install Windows 7 completely right up to the Welcome screen after which my desktop should have been prepared, I don't think this is a hard drive issue. When reinstalling Windows 7 on it, it recognized that Windows 7 was already on it and correctly gave me the size and space remaining on the drive.
Any advice would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks very much in advance.