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system won't boot up
Hi, hopefully someone here will have suggestions for me....I am running 7 HP on a mostly home made system (it started life out as a gateway) and I have aprox 500 gigs divided into 2 parts, with another external tb that I keep all my art stuff on (I am a computer artist) so I won't lose everything...
Anyway to make a long story short, at the moment I can't get it to boot up, Yesterday it was at least booting up but all it gave me was a pure white screen and now it won't even do that... I have tried to do a restore, but all my points were gone...so I tried from reading here that I could go into my reg files and fix that by removing a couple of folders...well that worked great and displayed my restore points, but i tried 6 or 7 and it wasn't able to complete the restore...
I then tried the restore in the "repair your computer" section and several times it told me again there were none....Also the "start up repair" told me that there was nothing wrong with my computer...
So, here are the "tools " I have to work with, to get my system back and running......
I can pull a boot up from a Vista dvd that came from MS directly, but I also have 2 install discs of win7 I made, and one just boot and repair, and when I try to reinstall windows, it tells me that there is an issue with a connected drive....But, if I use the vista one it does boot, but never starts installing the files...
When I try to boot (and sometimes i was successfull with one of the win 7 discs too) it does show windows installing, but then it keeps starting over and over again.
I AM able to access my computer via programs like regedit and my c-prompt, but most of the programs won't start. Some exe's will start though like mozilla so I can also access the internet.
I can also access my program files, and don't see anything glaringly out of place...
I have always run a couple of different security issues, but can't get any of those to start...even my Hijack this won't open.
Reading through your forums the past day and today, I can't seem to find any other issues like mine currently, and sure would appreciate any advice you can give me,
Thanks,
Virginia
Oh, I have tried in both regular and safe modes...