When booting this Win7 Home Prem system everything looks fine as it starts up with the twirly windows thing but then it ends on a black screen with just the cursor and nothing happens after that. This is exactly the same in normal mode, safe mode and even start with command prompt.
I'm sure a repair install would fix it but Microsnot have, in their wisdom, decided I can't do that because the only way that'll run is from within windows and, of course, I can't start windows!
I've been through the startup repair attempts but, as usual, it says it can't fix it. I've tried restoring the registry back to a time before this happened (using manual means) but that makes no difference.
I've chacked a few things in the registry (winlogon/shell, for example) but everything looks fine. I've run chkdsk and all says it is fine. I've run a disk checking utility and it says the drive is fine.
The primary drive is a SSD (120GB) and had a limited amount of free space (~2GB) but I've freed off another 2-3GB but it made no difference.
Is there anything I'm missing here? I REALLY don't want to have to install from scratch. Why on earth did M$ decide to stop repair install running from DVD? Is there any way round that?
I'm sure a repair install would fix it but Microsnot have, in their wisdom, decided I can't do that because the only way that'll run is from within windows and, of course, I can't start windows!
I've been through the startup repair attempts but, as usual, it says it can't fix it. I've tried restoring the registry back to a time before this happened (using manual means) but that makes no difference.
I've chacked a few things in the registry (winlogon/shell, for example) but everything looks fine. I've run chkdsk and all says it is fine. I've run a disk checking utility and it says the drive is fine.
The primary drive is a SSD (120GB) and had a limited amount of free space (~2GB) but I've freed off another 2-3GB but it made no difference.
Is there anything I'm missing here? I REALLY don't want to have to install from scratch. Why on earth did M$ decide to stop repair install running from DVD? Is there any way round that?