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Black screen with flashing cursor when booting W7
Hi, new to the forum.
I'm working on a dell inspiron 1525 for a friend. It came with vista but it was loaded with virus's. I formatted the hard drive and am now trying to install windows 7. The problem is that Everything that I am trying in just going straight to a black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left corner. I have done some research on this problem but none of the comments were from new installs. Vista was working fine except for being slow so i'm not thinking anything hardware related.
I've tried booting from cd, flash drive....and its all doing the exact same thing.
Any help would be great. Thanks