An invincible Windows 7 boot problem

Good idea to run checkdisk afterwards.

Not looking so good at the moment...

I followed SIW2's instructions but The Boot corrector didn't solve the problem.

And guess what, even the repair install won't work! The F:\setup.exe -command just returns an error message:

F:\setup.exe
The specified path does not exist

Check the path, and then try again.

The weird thing is when I click Browse.. and double-click the setup.exe on F drive it gives the exactly same error message. How is it possible that the path doesn't exist if I can see it?

And obviously I can't run the repair install from W7 DVD?

Thx for your help..

When you boot the Win7 DVD and select Repair My Computer, does it show you an installation to repair?

Try running Startup Repair several times with reboot to see if it will sort it out.

Also from the Recovery Tools list select System Restore to see if any restore points are available.

Next check what functionality you have in Safe Mode, by tapping F8 at bootup.

gregrocker said:

When you boot the Win7 DVD and select Repair My Computer, does it show you an installation to repair?

Yes it does.

Try running Startup Repair several times with reboot to see if it will sort it out.

This won't help.

Also from the Recovery Tools list select System Restore to see if any restore points are available.

It says I haven't created any restore points.

Next check what functionality you have in Safe Mode, by tapping F8 at bootup.

The safe mode helped a little. Still, I can't log on to my user account and admin account takes very long time to log on. The difference is that now the screen is black instead of blue and there's a Safe mode -text in every corner and there's 19 processes running (4 processes in normal mode). But I still can't run the repair install! This time it tries to start up the setup.exe but an error message shows up:

F:\Sources\SPWIZENG.DLL is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support.

Clicking OK gives another error:

The file 'autorun.dll' could not be loaded or is corrupt. Setup cannot continue. Error code is [0xC1]

After that setup terminates. What could that mean?

Repair Install won't run in Safe Mode.

See if you can enable administrator account in Safe Mode. Type CMD in start search box, right click result above and Run as Admin. Type: net user administrator /active:yes

Now reboot computer and attempt to run F:Setup for Repair Install via New Task in Task Manager.

gregrocker said:

Repair Install won't run in Safe Mode.

See if you can enable administrator account in Safe Mode. Type CMD in start search box, right click result above and Run as Admin. Type: net user administrator /active:yes

Now reboot computer and attempt to run F:Setup for Repair Install via New Task in Task Manager.

The problem is there's no start search box, actually there's nothing else than a black screen with 'Safe mode' text in every corner of it. So far Ctrl+Alt+Del has been the only thing that works. I selected the "run as administrator" (or something like that) when trying to run the setup.exe from task manager. It didn't help out.

Is there any other ways to run the repair install or should I just give up and use the 'format c:' solution?

Saltgrass said:

Do you have any reason to suspect a virus might be involved?

If not, possibly some files were courrupted during the interrupted partition changes.

Maybe another GParted picture would help, although it seems you have your partition problem corrected.

Can you open a command window from any point by using shift+F10? If you can get into a command window, maybe checking the system files would help:

SFC /scannow

Yea I think the problem isn't with partitioning, corrupted files might be the reason.

Shift+F10 did nothing, the task manager is all I have..

It doesn't look good. I think you sare better copying off anything you can - use a bootable Paragon cd - select Normal Mode > File Transfer Wizard.

Just in case you need to reinstall.