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shadowbreaker513
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Putting this in general as I'm not sure what's wrong.
Fitting with my luck, 3 days after my desktop died, my laptop took a shit. I was showing my friends a song on Rhapsody when it locked up and kept repeating the same 3 second clip of a song over and over, so I turned off the computer by the power button. When I went to reboot, it refused to boot into windows, and would go to where the login screen would be, but with nothing but a black screen and the mouse cursor (which I can move). After fiddling all night, I was finally able to get logged in under safe mode once, but once in, it didn't recognize that I was in under any account, I could not perform any actions, and apparently, the C drive didn't exist. It was listed under my computer, and listed as not full, but when I clicked on it, it came up as "folder is empty" even though windows itself was on that drive. (I couldn't even use things like command prompt however) I was able to get into the recovery console, and the self repair startup thing didn't work, and I was able to run a chkdsk, which found a few errors and fixed them but didn't solve anything. I obviously first thought it was a hardware problem with the hard drive, but the D drive which is just a second partition on the same disk the C drive is on was in perfect shape without any errors, and everything in there was accessible when I was able to get in safe mode (I have yet to be able to again.) All I can get now is the black screen with the cursor. One oddity I've noticed is that on the windows screen with the loading bar, the vista logo is absent, and it is nothing but the green bar and the microsoft text. Any help would be appreciated as I'm now down 2 computers already this week >.<
Specs - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220240
Only change is I swapped the ram for 4 gigs (clean on memtest)
Fitting with my luck, 3 days after my desktop died, my laptop took a shit. I was showing my friends a song on Rhapsody when it locked up and kept repeating the same 3 second clip of a song over and over, so I turned off the computer by the power button. When I went to reboot, it refused to boot into windows, and would go to where the login screen would be, but with nothing but a black screen and the mouse cursor (which I can move). After fiddling all night, I was finally able to get logged in under safe mode once, but once in, it didn't recognize that I was in under any account, I could not perform any actions, and apparently, the C drive didn't exist. It was listed under my computer, and listed as not full, but when I clicked on it, it came up as "folder is empty" even though windows itself was on that drive. (I couldn't even use things like command prompt however) I was able to get into the recovery console, and the self repair startup thing didn't work, and I was able to run a chkdsk, which found a few errors and fixed them but didn't solve anything. I obviously first thought it was a hardware problem with the hard drive, but the D drive which is just a second partition on the same disk the C drive is on was in perfect shape without any errors, and everything in there was accessible when I was able to get in safe mode (I have yet to be able to again.) All I can get now is the black screen with the cursor. One oddity I've noticed is that on the windows screen with the loading bar, the vista logo is absent, and it is nothing but the green bar and the microsoft text. Any help would be appreciated as I'm now down 2 computers already this week >.<
Specs - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220240
Only change is I swapped the ram for 4 gigs (clean on memtest)
