How do you know which files were corrupted?well it's booting now so that's different. i restored the files that were corrupted. but i might have messed something up worse along the way.
So you CAN logon now. Screen is completely black now. HDD light is flashing all the time (so busy)?I can log in and be presented with a black screen. The HDD is still loading so iI don't want to interrupt it. Can't bring task manager up. It might be restoring stuff so I'm not sure I should force a reboot.
Did you power off machine because nothing was happening on "normal boot" for a long time?getting into safe mode now. probably a driver issue, so i'm going to put back the driver folders i took. i really want to know what's hogging all the space from the other windows install, can't really do a repair install with only 6 gigs free. how much would i need for an upgrade? i might get a new version of windows.