black screen with blinking cursor

[chitown]

I have been trying to do a clean install all day for windows 7 and I get to the point where it is formatting registry files and then it goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor and Im stuck please help.

 

[Mitchell_A]

Hello, and Welcome to the Windows 7 Forums.
Could you post your system specifications here please?

 

[reghakr]

Can you hit Alt-Ctl-Del to bring up Task Manager?

If so, choose New > task and type explorer.exe in the box,.

 

[Mitchell_A]

I doubt he can as I think the cursor he's talking about is a MS-DOS cursor.

 

[reghakr]

Of course it is, Windows hasn't fully loaded.