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PC freezing after system recovery
Hey there, the PC is a windows 7 home premium 64bit emachines tower. I purchased the tower at wally world for $400 which I thought was a good deal since i already had a monitor and other components.
Now to the fun stuff. I stopped using this PC for a while and let my nephew and his friends play with it. What they did I'm unsure, but the case is that it would freeze and stuff. Some how I managed to back up all the files and after that it kept freezing. Gave up on it then a few days later I turned it on to attempt to restore it to a previous restore point that I had made almost when i bought it. Luckily, it went smoothly and the PC was working fine. I then decided to start from a fresh start, so I typed in recovery and was able to restore my PC to factory settings, so I did that (yesterday and it was working fine).
Today I turned on the PC with the intentions of importing some old files that I had on a external hard drive and I got an error. I was prompeted if I wanted to repair which was recommended or start windows normally. I hit repair and 10 sec after the screen went Clear. I was confused, so I waited a while and nothing. I then forced shut down the tower by holding down the power button and gave it another go and the same thing happend. I then tried the "start windows normally" option and it froze on the part when it says, "starting windows."
I'm now stuck and not sure if the hard drive is shot or not. I searched and saw that some people suggest to insert the wn 7 operating system disc and boot from it and make a new partition, but I'm not quite sure how to boot from the disc. When I hit the F12 key when the PC starts I get these options below as shown on the pic. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Last edited by SubbinBlazer; 24 Feb 2013 at 18:19.