Startup problem...

I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop for about a month now, and everything has been working fine... that is, until now. I came home from work to find the laptop off, even though i left it running when i left. I started it up and it went into system resume, but it never resumed. Instead, a blinking white line appeared in the top left corner of the screen. So I did a hard reset and chose to delete the suspended data and start fresh. The windows logo came up and continued to animate, but the system never started up. So I had to restart again, and this time i chose boot repair. It also went into the startup animation and will not stop unless i restart the computer...

So I want to fix this, but unfortunately I cannot find my installation dvd, and my desktop has Vista on it so I can't make a repair cd with that. Is there a downloadable boot fix i can burn to cd out there?

Thanks for any advice.

Nilsog said:

I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop for about a month now, and everything has been working fine... that is, until now. I came home from work to find the laptop off, even though i left it running when i left. I started it up and it went into system resume, but it never resumed. Instead, a blinking white line appeared in the top left corner of the screen. So I did a hard reset and chose to delete the suspended data and start fresh. The windows logo came up and continued to animate, but the system never started up. So I had to restart again, and this time i chose boot repair. It also went into the startup animation and will not stop unless i restart the computer...

So I want to fix this, but unfortunately I cannot find my installation dvd, and my desktop has Vista on it so I can't make a repair cd with that. Is there a downloadable boot fix i can burn to cd out there?

Thanks for any advice.

First hi and welcome to SF

I just wondered if you set win updates to auto install updates. We have seen an update kill an install overnight

Hope this helps

Ken

Thanks for the welcome.

I believe I have auto updates on... but truly I cannot remember.

That would work great, except I can't get Windows 7 past the startup animation.

I need something that I can boot from that will repair the boot up process from the HD.

myzr7 said:

Last Known Good Configuration
How to start your computer by using the Last Known Good Configuration feature in Windows XP

this link is for xp but think 7 has same option. MS may have trashed your install with a driver that they auto installed? anyway maybe this will help. good luck to you. lm

Same result- never ending flashing windows logo.

EDIT: If it helps, when I boot in safe mode it freezes after it loads CLASSPNP.SYS

Nilsog said:

Same result- never ending flashing windows logo.

EDIT: If it helps, when I boot in safe mode it freezes after it loads CLASSPNP.SYS

You have anthing external plugged in like a drive? Other thing is do you have either a vista disk or xp?
Ken

zigzag3143 said:

You have anthing external plugged in like a drive? Other thing is do you have either a vista disk or xp?
Ken

Nothing external plugged in, I have a Vista disc but its not currently in my possession.

Nilsog said:

Nothing external plugged in, I have a Vista disc but its not currently in my possession.

Why not search online for a win 7 boot disc and see if you could download it?

Ken

zigzag3143 said:

Why not search online for a win 7 boot disc and see if you could download it?

Ken

That's why I came here. I figured if there was one out there you guys would know about it.