Solved Display blank after Macrium restore

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I used my Macrium Reflect (free version) recovery disk to restore the C: drive on my 4 year-old Win7Pro-32bit HP laptop. The image restored was on an external USB drive. Restore seemed to proceed as expected. On restart, however, the screen goes black after the Starting Windows flag-waving. Control never returns to the keyboard. Disk light continues to flicker. This state remains unchanged for at least 30 minutes. This behavior was repeated after restoring a different date's image.

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Laptop has single HDD with multiple partitions. C: partition was imaged and restored. Recovery disk version shows
E57932F1AE469A26#5.0.4258 2012/01/27#WAIKFiles00x86.exe
.

Any hope for getting my laptop back to working order?
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP 6730s laptop
OS
10 Windows 7 Pro 32-bit
CPU
Intel P7370
Motherboard
Base Board 30E8; KBC Version 94.1D
Memory
4GB
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Microsoft C
Sound Card
SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor (per Device Manager)
Screen Resolution
1280 x 800 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 59 Hz
Hard Drives
WDC WD5000BEVT-60ZAT1 ATA Device: 465.76 GB
PSU
HP 6730s
Case
HP 6730s
Cooling
HP 6730s
Keyboard
HID Keyboard Device (per Device Manager)
Mouse
Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad
Internet Speed
varies
Antivirus
Norton Internet Security
Browser
Firefox 47
Other Info
Where no detailed information from SystemInfo is available HP 6730s has been entered.
The solution, at least in this case, was to reinstall Win 7. None of the three C: partition restores would boot properly. Safe mode was available but no further clues appeared. Oh well. Trust has been diminished.

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My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP 6730s laptop
OS
10 Windows 7 Pro 32-bit
CPU
Intel P7370
Motherboard
Base Board 30E8; KBC Version 94.1D
Memory
4GB
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Microsoft C
Sound Card
SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor (per Device Manager)
Screen Resolution
1280 x 800 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 59 Hz
Hard Drives
WDC WD5000BEVT-60ZAT1 ATA Device: 465.76 GB
PSU
HP 6730s
Case
HP 6730s
Cooling
HP 6730s
Keyboard
HID Keyboard Device (per Device Manager)
Mouse
Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad
Internet Speed
varies
Antivirus
Norton Internet Security
Browser
Firefox 47
Other Info
Where no detailed information from SystemInfo is available HP 6730s has been entered.
I've run into the same problem using MR -- and have found two different ways to solve it:
1) Using the Boot CD made from WinRE, choose the option to repair the boot
2) Using the Win7 Repair CD made from the Win7 Backup feature, boot and run Startup Repair three times.

Now that you have Win7 working again, do yourself a favor and use the Backup feature to create and burn a Win7 Repair CD.

I don't think the boot repair function is available on the Linux Boot CD, which is why I did not suggest that earlier.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom
OS
Win7 Pro 32-bit, Win8 Pro 32-bit
CPU
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Motherboard
Gigabyte
Memory
4GB ddr3 1300
Graphics Card(s)
AMD HD 4290 onboard
Sound Card
Builtin Realtek HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 24" widescreen, LG 23" widescreen
Screen Resolution
1920x1200/1920x1080
Hard Drives
Kingston 256GB SSD
Keyboard
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech M705 wireless mouse
Antivirus
Norton Av 2013
Browser
IE v10
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