Hi everyone! I was installing a new theme from custopack tools and suddenly my dell x64 laptop (Build 7601 windows 7 sp1 installed) crashed on me. Most probably due to the loose power adapter wire. Now i cant get it back to work. It goes fine till the logon screen but then the screen turns black. I can see the mouse pointer. Same thing happens when i login with safemode settings. Anyone familiar with this!
You know we could run a lot of complicated procedures, but I think a repair install is your quickest direct route to just looking at your desktop again.
Repair Install
^^^detailed instructions
Just curious what other options i have here! I tried logging in thru minixp from hiren's boot cd. There i tried to run custopack to install the theme properly. Thought it might just patch the defected/ missing files. But the software wont install anything cs it treats the os as xp not 7.
I'm telling you a repair install will preserve your files and get you booting normally again.
The only other thing I can think of to fix the kind of file damage I would expect from the scenario you described with the power chord is a sfc command.
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
but it doesn't sound like you can make use of that in your currrent situation.
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