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Windows 7 installation and boot problems
Hello, I just bought a new custom PC, and it worked fine for about a month, running a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate OS. But one day I decided to install a mod for the GTA IV game. So I installed it, and ran the game. I then got a black screen and no response from my mouse cursor whatsoever. So I decided to reset my PC. After resetting my computer, it failed to boot windows and went into the Startup Repair loading screen. After this incident I was stuck in the Startup Repair loop.
A few days later, I decided to format my hard drive and re-install Windows 7. I put my Windows 7 installation disk and ran the installation until the disk partition menu, where I deleted and formatted the partitions. I'm not sure if this was the right thing to do, but I was following a forum on how to do a clean install of Windows. The installation seemed to be going alright until an error message popped up when windows was installing the features. The message said "Windows could not update registry data in the installation." followed by hundreds of message saying things like "The file or directory D:\Program Files\Windows Mail\oeimport.dll is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the ChkDsk utility." except there were all different directories every time. I have read a lot of forums about the Startup Repair loop and things related to windows not booting properly, but nothing seems to work in my case. So I took the hard drive to my IT teacher to get it formatted properly and tried to install a downloaded version of windows via USB. That didn't work either. The installation seemed to be completed, and told me to restart my computer to complete the installation. But when I restarted my computer a black screen popped up saying a lot of things, but the cause seemed to be "Windows failed to load because a critical system driver is missing or corrupt. I don't know what else to do, I have tried a lot of different methods, but none of them seem to work.