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W7 64 bit black screen of death without cursor
This is entirely my fault and I should be slapped for being so dumb, but I got impatient with a [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]flash [COLOR=blue !important]drive[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] that hangs. I have a Rosewill USB 3.0 card installed on the W7 64 bit PC and have a USB hub run from the card.
I was transferring a video to a PNY 32Gb flash drive inserted into the hub and it was taking forever, the time remaining indicated 3 hours...well I was hoping to do the transfer quickly as I needed to get to work...as no progress was being made I clicked on cancel and it hung there for a while and finally I just pulled the stick from the hub.
That might have been a bad mistake because the screen immediately went black and rebooting brought me around to the same black screen. Nothing comes up, I mean nothing, no blinking cursor, nothing. The [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]PC[/COLOR][/COLOR] is running when I reboot but there is nothing on the screen.
Is there a way into the OS other than an old rescue disk I have?