Stuck on B.S.O.D will not boot to a cursor Windows 7 Home Premium

Hi sheffieldyorky,

sheffieldyorky said:

Sorry crossed over . . .

Don't worry. Can you expand the Status column fully please?

Hi sheffieldyorky,

sheffieldyorky said:

Hi Paul, did you see my alteration above to the C: drive expanded status

That's great, I needed to see if the C:\ drive was set as => System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition.

Hi sheffieldyorky,

sheffieldyorky said:

I still have Admin Command prompt open.

In the elevated cmd prompt type chkdsk C: /R and press Enter.

It will ask you if you to schedule a reboot, type Y and press Enter to Reboot.

This cannot be run while the HDD is in use [locked] and is therefore scheduled [displays a prompt] to be run at the next reboot. After it has run, Windows will automatically boot.

I would like to get back to you with some further information but Windows has now decided that it wants to update.
Update
It's still updating and now I have visitors.
I'll have to get back to you tomorrow

sheffieldyorky said:

I would like to get back to you with some further information but Windows has now decided that it wants to update.

Update
It's still updating and now I have visitors.
I'll have to get back to you tomorrow.

OK. Does that mean your OS is now working?

Hi

Something odd here

This DOES NOT look like W7 has been CLEAN installed from an Iso, more like an image/clone and somethings gone wrong - there's a RAW partition likely the reason behind the problems
It needs to be deleted

A base install would only have 2 partitions,
An OEM disk set would also include the recovery partition
you have a 2TB hard drive - highly unlikely it was shipped with a w7 OEM comp
HP tools partition idicates OEM not a Custom build

please read this tutorial
Partition / Extended : Logical Drives

and then reset your drive set-up

Hi torchwood,

torchwood said:

Something odd here.

This DOES NOT look like W7 has been CLEAN installed from an ISO, more like an image/clone and somethings gone wrong - there's a RAW partition highly likely the reason behind the problems. It needs to be deleted.

A base install would only have 2 partitions.

Good point, the RAW partition is 0MB. He also has a H:\ Recovery partition!