Black screen after boot and other problems


  1. akoz
    Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
       New #1

    Black screen after boot and other problems


    Hello... I already have Windows XP installed and would like to install Windows 7 Ultimate x86 on another hard drive (multi/dual-boot). The installation went over smoothly. When finished, the computer rebooted automatically and it tried to log into W7, but I got a black screen before anything appeared. Multiple restarts did the same thing.
    When I opened Windows XP to search about the problem, the performance was reduced and when trying to access the other drive via My Computer, the second HDD was still there, but the window froze. Then I tried to repair Windows using the disk, but it seemed that Windows did not install properly and it didn't detect my hard drive when I tried to install Windows again. I also cannot go into Safe Mode. I think my hard drive is "borked". How should I proceed?
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

  3. ICIT2LOL
    Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       New #2

    Hello and welcome akoz mate did you have both drives hooked up when you tried the install of 7?

    Plus how have you got the BIOS set to boot from? if you go into the BIOS and go to the boot section and make the 7 hard drive as the first boot drive. Personally I would just leave the 7 running and if you are just keeping XP for data I would be getting that off of there and onto the 7 afer I had booted into 7 and then hooked up that other drive if it will take it.

    You realise XP is not supported from early next year so it seems a lot of trouble to go to just to eep it running for a small time only.

    Plus I see you only have 2GB RAM there mate for 7 that is really pushing your luck especially Ultimate. Did you really need Ultimate?
    Anyway some system specs would be good too.
    System Info - See Your System Specs
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

 

  Related Discussions
Thanks for all providing valuable suggestions in my previous thread Win 7: Black screen on boot up, before login screen? As I am picking the clean install option for my resolution, I am opening this new thread. :) I reviewed the tutorials (Macrium) of this community. I found Macrium Reflect...
Hello, I had a very odd incident with my computer. Specs: FX-6300 ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 Ripjaws Gskill 2x4GB Rosewill Green Series 630W Also have a Cooler Master 212 EVO for the CPU R9 270x Gigabyte OC Edition
Hey guys I was installing kali from a usb drive, when it was partitioning the drive it crashed... So I turned off my lenovo g570 4334 laptop, pulled out the usb drive and booted my laptop up normally..... It loaded the lenovo screen, with the options to access bios, then loaded a black screen with...
So this problem has been reoccurring again and again... I have been having boot problems with my laptop about 2 weeks ago with black screen and no cursor as well as "a disk read error" and sometimes a boot manager error Status: 0xc000000e9 with the error screen frozen and...
I upgraded my pc with a 120gb ssd from a 500 gb HDD. I installed Windows 7 on the ssd and formatted the old drive and thus removing its windows installation, however i did not remove the 100 mb system partition (did not know how to). When I restarted the computer it showed a black screen with a...
Our Sites
Site Links
About Us
Windows 7 Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation. "Windows 7" and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.

 © Designer Media Ltd
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:22.
Find Us