Windows 7 will not load a login screen

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Hi Paladin,

Thanks for your patience when dealing with this problem, I can understand how bonkers one can get.

One final thing that I wanted to ask from you was that, have you done the Safe Mode already and if you have, did it stop at a specific driver?

Unfortunately, I'm out of ideas at this point, you can do what bigmck suggested or rather at this point it would be smartest thing to do and I was also going to recommend it.

Remember, installing the OS on a new drive won't delete any of your files on your current HDD. But just to be sure I would start to empty it because for me it sounds as if it's dying and that it won't see the light of day!

Cheers
Boris :)

PaladinStL said:

Thanks to you Boris, and to you to bigmck, for you thoughts and suggestions.
I took the machine to Micro Center; they ran some tests and recommend a new drive, which is the way I went.

Thanks again
Paladin in StL

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