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Windows 7 won't start
My Windows 7 has stopped working again. It won't start. The HD lamp stays lit most of the time. I created backup/restore disks and they worked in January, but do nothing now. I had created several restore points, but the restore function can't find them.
By pressing F8, I can get to the start screen, no matter what function I select, I get "Loading Windows files" at the top of the page, and "please wait" at the bottom.
If I let Windows start normally, I get to the screen with System Restore,.....Command Prompt. The only function that seems to do anything is System Image Recovery. I install disk 4 (the last disk) as requested and I get message stating "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware."
For what its worth when doing Start up repair I get the following reports Number of repair attempts 29.
Root Cause found Start up repair has tied several times but still cannot determine the cause of the problem.
Auto Check run Number of Root Causes 1
A number of tests were performed successfully all with error code 0x0.
One other test that was performed found Root Cause 12
Many of these were .dll files that were not found
Appinfo,dciman32,devon, devrti, dpnhupnp, dpnlobby, droinst, dxmas, msoxm.ocx, spwmd, tsgqecid.
I was able to find all of these on C/program files/system 32.
Hopefully, there is an answer to this.
Thanks in advance
Jim W