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Windows won't boot after format / Black screen of death (with cursor)
Hi
First, sorry if this problem already has been adressed elsewhere. I have googled for roughly 10 hours and now im spent.
I have encountered a problem regarding the boot process of my computer (ASUS N53SV Laptop) with Windows 7 Premium 64 bit installed.
Yesterday i formated a harddrive. My computer has 2 harddrives labelled C and D. Windows is installed on the C drive, and i formated the D drive using the designed windows tool.
Today my laptop has been unable to boot.
At first the computer appears to be booting, however after the "Windows is starting" along with the Windows logo has been present for a while, a screen similar to this one appears: http://cdn.howtogeek.com/wp-content/...1217020232.png
Trying to start normally loops back around to the same screen, trying to repair the computer results in the computer ending up with a black screen with the mouse cursor present and able to move around.
However the following problems are present:
- I cannot open task manager (or anything else for that matter) at the mouse cursor screen, thus i can't use the "restart explorer.exe solution" or anything software related for that matter.
- When trying to enter Safe Mode i end up with the same screen and limited options. This goes for all variations of safe mode, along with the "Last good configuration" and "low resolution video" options as well
- When trying to boot from a Recovery disc (created from another Win7 pc) i end up in the same situation
- I have tried to download a win7 ISO file as described elsewhere, and boot from that with the same luck
- I have tried to disable the harddrive entirely in the BIOS - no luck either
- Removing all USB related plugins does nothing
So to sum up:
- Normal startup = Restart loop
- Repair startup = Black screen of death with mouse cursor present/moveable but cant do anything
- Safe mode + variations = same
- Recovery disc = same
- Windows installation disc = same
- I can't seem to open a command promt
As everything on the PC is backed up i do not have any problems in doing complete wipe of everything on the PC / Factory reset thus if any solution exists where i can simply reinstall windows (bear in mind; i can't enter any sort of software or command prompt)