Unable to get past 'starting windows' screen

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  1. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 32
       #1

    Unable to get past 'starting windows' screen


    While watching a live feed on the internet, it stopped responding, so i held down the power button on my laptop to turn it off with the aim of restarting it. Unfortunatley now it won't restart and freezes no the 'starting windows' page. I have tried safe mode with networking, restaring at last known good configuration, booting from cd and repairing but nothing has worked.

    Any ideas what i can do?

    Thanks
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  2. AC
    Posts : 956
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
       #2

    Have you tried a system restore to a point earlier in time when it worked?
    System Restore
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  3. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 32
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Yep tried that. However when i posted i was trying to boot from the cd and i thought it was frozen, however it now appears it is trying to work from the cd....fingers crossed
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  4. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #4

    Meldives said:
    Yep tried that. However when i posted i was trying to boot from the cd and i thought it was frozen, however it now appears it is trying to work from the cd....fingers crossed
    Try to run startup repair from the cd. Also, try to run System Restore from the cd.
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  5. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 32
    Thread Starter
       #5

    windude99 said:
    Meldives said:
    Yep tried that. However when i posted i was trying to boot from the cd and i thought it was frozen, however it now appears it is trying to work from the cd....fingers crossed
    Try to run startup repair from the cd. Also, try to run System Restore from the cd.
    Trying the startup repair now. If that doesn't work do i try the system restore?
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  6. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 32
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Hmmm, not sure what has happpened but it appears to be working again :)

    Ran system repair and got the following messages
    Problem event name: startup repair offline
    Problem signature 1; 6.1.7600.16385
    2: 6.1.7600.16385
    3: unknown
    4: 486
    5: external media
    6: 1
    7: no root cause
    Os version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
    Locaie id: 1033

    Then another message
    Root cause found - unspecified changes to system configuration might have caused the problem
    Repair action: system files intergity check & repair
    Result: failed error code =0x490

    It gave the option to restart, so i did and it has booted up fine. Not sure what the problem was but glad my laptop is working again!
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  7. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #7

    Meldives said:
    Hmmm, not sure what has happpened but it appears to be working again :)

    Ran system repair and got the following messages
    Problem event name: startup repair offline
    Problem signature 1; 6.1.7600.16385
    2: 6.1.7600.16385
    3: unknown
    4: 486
    5: external media
    6: 1
    7: no root cause
    Os version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
    Locaie id: 1033

    Then another message
    Root cause found - unspecified changes to system configuration might have caused the problem
    Repair action: system files intergity check & repair
    Result: failed error code =0x490

    It gave the option to restart, so i did and it has booted up fine. Not sure what the problem was but glad my laptop is working again!
    It looks like startup repaired something even thoughthe operation failed. I have had similar things happen with System Restore. Sometimes, Windows just does weired stuff
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  8. AC
    Posts : 956
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
       #8

    Windows does do things like that. Once, I did a system restore, and it said it failed, but when I restarted on got to desktop, it said System Restore completed successfully. That's Windows for you I guess
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  9. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #9

    714 said:
    Windows does do things like that. Once, I did a system restore, and it said it failed, but when I restarted on got to desktop, it said System Restore completed successfully. That's Windows for you I guess
    Yea, that's what I had happen.
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  10. Posts : 427
    Windows 7/64 HPremium.
       #10

    Wish I had a few GBP's for every occasion that Windows tells me that something cannot possibly be corrected. Then it is, seemingly with no input from me ...
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