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Black screen before login, can't go to safe mode, repair unsuccessful
I'd really appreciate some help - for some reason my setup now won't get to the login screen, I get the green progress bar and (c) Microsoft, but no windows logo, then a black screen. When I restart I get taken to a screen telling me windows didn't start correctly, and to either launch startup repair or start windows normally. If I choose repair I eventually get a message saying startup repair cannot repair this computer, with the problem details showing:
Problem event name: startuprepairoffline
Signature 1: 0.0.0.0
2: 6.1.7.7600.16385
3: unknown
4: 21200435
5: autofailover
6: 8
7: norootcause
Os version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale id: 1033
If I choose to boot normally I go to the same black screen. I am unable to press f8 to boot in safe mode because I always get taken to the "windows failed to start" screen first. From the system recovery screen I can launch the command prompt, and from there have run chkdsk which had no effect. I've also started notepad and have seen that my drives seem to be working okay. At some point I do remember seeing a message saying the problem was due to system configuration changes - I haven't changed the configuration but have tried disconnecting usb devices.
I'm stuck and would appreciate any help at all, have no idea what has gone wrong but did read something about it being related to login IDs...