Booting from usb problem

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  1. Posts : 9
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    Booting from usb problem


    I have an acer laptop that i upgraded from vista to 32bit windows 7 which was installed a few months ago through my USB because my cd drive doesnt work. Now I am getting the unmountable boot volume blue screen error so I am trying to boot the installation from my USB. It gets past "windows is loading files", then it goes to starting Windows with the logo... but after that I get a black screen with just the mouse arrow. Last night I kept this up all night thinking it was just slow but with no luck. I made an USB that has the windows vista system recovery disk on it and Booted that and that worked but I cannot use it to repair because it is for Vista only. any ideas??
    Last edited by saagar; 07 Jan 2010 at 14:58. Reason: fixed
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  2. Posts : 1,849
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       #2

    Can you please edit it were its not all messed up please?
    I cannot understand it to help you
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  3. Posts : 9
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    Thread Starter
       #3

    oops fixed now
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  4. Posts : 1,849
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       #4

    Okay,
    You cannot get it to install via Usb or cd correct?
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  5. Posts : 9
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    Thread Starter
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    Correct. My cd drive hasnt been working for a very long time. A couple months ago I installed windows 7 using a usb and it worked flawlessly. Now I am using the same USB that has the windows 7 installation on it. After I start the pc with the USB in it I get the "windows is loading files" and that loads...then I get to a starting windows screen with the windows logo....but after that I get a black screen with the mouse arrow on it. I am looking to do a windows repair.
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  6. Posts : 1,849
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       #6

    Do you use the jump drive for anything else?
    Or strictly Win7 installer?
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  7. Posts : 9
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    Thread Starter
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    Nope only for windows 7.
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  8. Posts : 1,849
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    Weird.
    Do you have another pc you can try to rebuild the USB boot drive from?
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  9. Posts : 9
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    Thread Starter
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    I just used the same USB in another PC and it booted and worked normally. This is crazy wonder what kinds of things would stop the installation menu to come up.
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  10. Posts : 1,849
    Windows 7 x86/x64, Server 2008r2, Web Server 2008
       #10

    You are trying to do a repair install?

    It may be something with your current install. You may have to try a fresh install....

    Or if your machine supports PXE set up a vm with server 2008r2 on there and have it be a remote install server
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