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Laptop wont boot to windows
Hi guys. I need help desperately before I lose my mind! Gradually over the last few weeks my laptop has been getting slower and slower and on occasion has struggled with booting up. I've been trying to back up my work to do a full reformat. However a couple of days ago I shut down and ever since it won't boot up again. I switch it on and I get the start-up screen where I can press f2 or f4 for setup or recovery then the screen goes blank with the cursor showing and that's about as far as I get. I've used my Windows CD to try to repair, I've used command prompts to fix the MBR etched and even performed a memory test. All tests come back as no faults found. But also no system restore points can be found. However during the system repair it mentions something about removing any hardware such as a camera etc from the computer, but I haven't attached anything. I can't even boot up in safe mode. A couple of weeks ago I had issues with some malware but managed to get rid of it, however, that's about the time my problems started. I'm using Windows 7 on a Samsung notebook model np300e5a. I will gladly give any info required where possible as I really want a reformat to be a last resort
Thanks in advance