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Boot: "Starting Windows" then stops with black screen & active cursor
Windows 7, after "Starting Windows" stops with a black screen and mouse cursor.
1. I turned on my desktop PC after more than 3 weeks of non use, it was in its package/box. It booted nicely to the desktop but suddenly showed a BSOD and turned off. I turned it on again and it showed a message saying the processor is overheated, so I turned it off, removed the processor to check if there's enough thermal compound. Thermal compound was OK, but the processor was a bit shaky, not well fitted, so I replaced the processor correctly and then powered it on.
2. It detected the change I made and asked what system settings it should load, I chose the default CPU settings, in a haste. I didn't read that message well, unfortunately. It showed the error message that Windows wasn't shutdown properly, I chose to load Windows normally. Chkdsk did a disk check, disk passed and it started "Replacing invalid security ID with default security ID". It then started booting; "Starting Windows" and the next screen was just a blank/black screen with the mouse cursor. It's stopped here for hours. I searched for solutions online and tried almost everything I could think of; Repair with Windows installer, bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, marking the disk active, etc. No success! I cannot boot in any mode!
3. In an attempt to copy my files off the disk, I tried Ubuntu and even installed a new Windows 7 on an unallocated partition on the same disk. The disk was not accessible and its original name has change from C:/ to D:/. This is how the disk structure was:
*C:/ = contains the new Windows 7 I just installed(test)
*D:/ = contains my previous Windows 7 which used to be on the C:/
*E:/ = 100MB reserved system partition
I tried granting admin permissions to the disk in the Security tab, it found several errors and the operation did not succeed.
How can I get my Windows back?
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