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reinstall of win7 causes black screen and not genuine warning
Recently my PC has begun to work painfully slowly (40+mins to get to the desktop from sleep mode). I think it started happening after the power had gone out so i assumed there was some corrupt windows files. Did a sfc scan and it returned no problems. Tried to run startup repair and still no problems so I tried rolling back to a system restore point but then explorer.exe stopped running automatically and i couldnt bring up task manager or anything along those lines. I opened it in safe mode and checked that the shell part had only the value explorer.exe and it was all fine. Gave up and did a fresh reinstall of windows but now it gets just past the Starting Windows screen only to be confronted by a blank black screen with only the mouse. I left it for a couple hours to see if maybe it was still installing but all that happened was a Windows is not genuine tag in the bottom right corner (my copy is genuine). Tried booting in safe mode but i get an error that says that Windows is in the middle of installing and cant be completed in safe mode and that I should restart my computer and allow install to finish. Any suggestions? Could this be a hardware problem? Could the power out have fried something on the inside?