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Windows 7 refuses to boot up
Hi, I was directed to these forums from dearwandy.com so hopefully someone can help me with my windows 7 problem on here!
I had a system failure the other week (a crash dump memory hardware failure type thing) and ever since windows 7 (32 bit) has felt sluggish. I decided to run a full system scan to check for errors, restarted my computer so it would run and ever since it has been stuck in a loop - if I let it run the system check then when it finishes and restarts it says system clean and then freezes. Also if I press a key to prevent the system scan from running then it also freezes. I also tried running my windows disk to see if I can repair the system and that starts loading, but as soon as the starting windows sign appears and a cursor appears then that also freezes.
I also tried F8 when the computer loads but repair computer doesn't seem to do anything, and safe mode hangs at \windows\system32\drivers\class pnp.sys
I did leave load in last known good configuration (or whatever it is called) and after about 20 min it did load windows but would freeze as soon as I tried any maintance.
If I need to reinstall windows then how would I go about it? It now loads the windows disk up to the language select, but repair or install both seem to do nothing again (I will leave it running for as long as possible to see if it starts after 20min or more like the other time)
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated as I have no idea how to proceed!