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Unable to Boot Windows 7
Hello,
For the last several days, I have been trying to get my wifes laptop to boot, without luck.
Following the instructions on this site, I downloaded and created a boot/repair CD. When I try to boot from CD, it finds a windows install on drive D, runs some sort of scan, and reports that it has found no errors.
I was beginning to suspect a bad hard drive, since I thought that the D: drive was the DVD. Tonight, I was just rebooting it several times, and after one of these power cycles, the repair function automatically re-booted the laptop. When it came back up, it was very, very slow, but eventually(after 30-40 min) it came to the normal user log-in screen. I was able to enter the password and log in, but then it went to a black screen with a mouse cursor. Here it sat for 2+ hours. I am able to move the mouse around, but no desktop, start menu, etc came up.
I have since shut the laptop down and returned to this forum to ask for help!
Thanks,
James