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Will not boot to Desktop
New to the forums need help with failure to boot problem. Am not sure this is the right place for this question.
Lenovo H430, Win7 Home Premium 64bit, about 4?yrs old.
On startup it will "load files" and eventually get to what I believe is Windows graphics screen (light blue sky with lazy "contrails" and a flower on right), but will go no further, does not reach log on screen. If left alone, Startup Repair starts, and runs and runs . . . .. Startup Repair has run several times, once all night, with no resolution - "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete."
On one of the Startup Repair attempts, it did give results - all with error code 0x0, except for line at the bottom "...root cause ... corrupted." This was while ago and I have forgotten the exact msg.
It will not start in safe mode, or to the last know good configuration.
Since there are a few pieces of data that are not backed up, I need to avoid the Lenovo One Key Recovery, even if I manage to pull the data to other storage, that is last resort "solution."
Being a Lenovo, I have no supplied disks of any sort.
Any insight or direction for resolving this would be appreciated.
Thanks.