startup repair

SHORT VERSION: I made the mistake of installing an OS on my desktop from a Reinstallation disk that came with my Dell laptop. It actually worked okay until I installed a Wireless PCI express adapter. Things became unresponsive within a few hours of that and now it will not boot, even in safe...

I've been having problems with my laptop. One day it randomly turned itself off and once I turned it on I went to log on and it just hung at the welcome screen with the light blue spinner. Let me keep in mind safe mode works. I've tried a system restore but it would leave me on a black screen...

Hi, all! I know how to perform a nondestructive repair install of Windows 7 under ordinary circumstances, but everything I've read so far says that you simply cannot perform that procedure if you can't boot into Windows 7 full mode first (using the hard disk partition that you want to perform...

ello, I've run into a problem with my Windows 7 install. For context, I originally had Windows XP dual booting with Windows 7 because I wasn't sure if I wanted to make the upgrade at the time. Windows XP was on my old 300 GB HDD, while I had Windows 7 on my 1.5 TB HDD (with 83GB allocated into...

For months now , i can't even restart my pc in any form because the only way to get it to boot properly is in Safe Mode and the usual System Restore...when the arrow symbol pops up it just sits there and when i move the mouse the screen gets darker..i've updated and ran Malwarebytes quite a few...

I installed windows 8 on a new partition on my really old computer. Something I did made windows 8 not boot anymore (I don't want it on my computer, I want to fully revert back to XP). But, XP won't boot either! The error message when trying to boot xp is: Windows failed to start. A...

hi i recently built me a new computer installed everything SaberTooth 990fx R2.0 mobo and 32gb of corsair memory windows 7 64bit everything was working fine till i decided to bios update then after successfully doing soo my computer would not load windows it would say the boot drive is...

Windows 7 was switched from Windows 7 Home premiere to Windows 7 Basic at the time. (Which is normal for it) I was closing a few programs, and they took a while to close. I got the not responding errors for one of them and let it close on its own so it wouldn't mess with my saved file. After it...

Hello I'm new to these forums. What happened to my computer is, I kept getting the BSOD, I went into safe mode, removed the most recent programs I had installed, and it stopped happening. I then proceeded to plug in my external hard drive. It was not recognizing it for some reason, so I went to...

My daughter forgot her password for her netbook running Windows 7 Starter, so first I used Ophcrack, which was unable to get the password. I then proceeded to try Kon-boot 1.0, which bypasses the Windows login screen, only for it to break something. To be fair, it was my fault for not...

Ran Windows Update on wife's computer today (Biostar A75-MH mobo, AMD A8-3850, 8Gb DDR3-1600, 64Gb Samsung 830 SSD boot drive, Win7 x64) and upon restart it froze at 35% installing the updates. After it did nothing for 30 min I rebooted. It boots to the desktop but with an error box saying...

After rebooting my system, it recommended that i do a start up repair. After the repair completed i recieved the black screen right before choosing USER , so i tried 3x more to repair which each completed but same outcome till the point it just says cant repair automatically . Then i tried to...

I went to the toilet for 5 minutes and when I came back, my computer was off so I tried restarting it and this happened. Its my custom built PC. Its been fine for a few months but a few weeks ago, It said before start up: SATA3G_6 Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, backup and replace. I dunno...

When I boot up my laptop (Compaq Presario CQ61) I get the windows logo but then it goes to a black screen with the cursor. I've been into safe mode and unistalled the display drivers which allowed me to boot the laptop normally but then when I allowed the drivers to be reinstalled the problem...

My computer shuts down when it approaches desktop. i started it again and run it in recommended mode to fix the problem. Then, it shows a grey bar that spans the screen saying "Windows is loading files..." Next a green bar that says: "Microsoft Corporation" Startup repair automatically starts...

Okay, So it all started with m computer giving me this: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1.Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer. 2.Choose your language settings, and then click "Next". 3.Click...

We work at a University where we have starting seeing random Windows 7 machines wanting to do startup repair. While in most cases several reboots, safe mode or lkgc will fix them we are trying to find the cause. Has anyone else seen anything like this? There is no pattern in machines, all...

Ok, I have a first for Windows 7 that I have seen. My relative has a windows 7 machine that she opened a nasty email on which crashed her PC. After attempting to restart she now gets Startup repair failing to fix the problem message. Things we have tried: -boot into safe mode -enable boot...

I've also tried the commandprompt trick on here to no avail either. Strangely, whenever the Windows CD is in my CD-ROM, it starts up fine and works. However, I will go to work and come back after having left it on and it will be back to the BOOTMGR is missing screen inevitably by the time I get...

something happened, it was just a regular day, i was playing some games, went to the internet, and then everything started lagging, chrome hanged, explorer hanged, i started security options to start task manager, and then everything went downright to hell. preparing security...