Blinking cursor with black screen..


  1. Suresh
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    Windows 8 x64
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    Blinking cursor with black screen..


    Ive bought a new hdd and installed win 8 in it and copied a bunch of files.. And now when install windows 7 on it after my boot screen i get black screen with a Blinking cursor on the top left
    Now what should I do to boot into win 7..
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  3. archer
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    Windows 7 ultimate x64
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    Hi Suresh, Welcome to Sevenforums.

    Did you install Win 7 on top of Win 8? or did a clean install of Win 7 after removing Win 8? or are you trying to make it a dual boot PC?
    Check out this link. Might help you.
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  4. Suresh
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    Windows 8 x64
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    I did a clean install of windows 7.
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