• Partition merging totally screwed up everything
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Alright, well I had one hard drive split as two partitions, one of which was full of junk that I didn't need. So I deleted the partition data in the manager, and it deleted everything on there and the drive number, which is what I wanted. I wanted to go ahead and merge the several hundred gigabytes of unallocated space to my active partition (which is running Windows 7), but my active partition was on the right, and for some reason it wouldn't work like that. So I downloaded EASEUS partition manager, which let me move my active partition and combine it with the other one. It asked me to restart my computer, so I did, and when it booted it took a couple hours saying "moving files" etc. When it got to 99%, it said "Updating System Information". This was taking a really long time, so I went to bed. When I awoke the next morning it was [B]still[/B] doing it. I assumed it had gotten stuck somewhere, and the hard drive light was only blinking once every 10 seconds or so, so I did something really bad: I shut down the computer. Now when it boots, it goes to the desktop, but it doesn't look the same as before, and a lot of features (like control panel) don't work. It looks like this [img_thumb]http://i51.tinypic.com/nmivxw.png[/img_thumb] I don't know what's happened, after googling the problem it seems to be fairly common, but I have no idea how to fix this. I don't have my windows 7 disc handy, I would have to dig through the entire shed to find it, so is there any way to fix this? Also, all the files seem to still exist, but it's not showing them. I had more stuff on the desktop and in the task bar, etc. but they don't show up. When it's booting it looks perfectly normal, even the login screen, after that, I have to run explorer.exe with task manager to even get something other than a blank screen+mouse. [editline]2nd March 2011[/editline] Safe mode does the same thing but with the black background and a low resolutuion. Also when you first log on there's a little bubble that says something about being on a temporary profile.
Come on guys, do I need to reinstall Windows? I know it's a long read
Do a repair install, if you have your Windows 7 install disc.
Sounds like some important files got corrupted, but don't blame yourself. It's easy to assume that it's never going to budge to that next percentage when waiting on something. It's a horrible feeling as to whether or not you should risk it and turn it off or keep waiting. But you could be waiting a [i]long[/i] time if it is stuck. I would have done the same Try a repair from the windows 7 disk as beaver suggested, that should fix it.
Sounds like some important files got corrupted, but don't blame yourself. It's easy to assume that it's never going to budge to that next percentage when waiting on something. It's a horrible feeling as to whether or not you should risk it and turn it off or keep waiting. But you could be waiting a [i]long[/i] time if it is stuck. I would have done the same Try a repair from the windows 7 disk as beaver suggested, that should fix it.
Well I couldn't find the disk, so I downloaded the repair disc from some website and put it on a flash drive. It won't let me boot off the flash drive for some reason (it goes to bootmgr, or if I set the flash drive to boot first it says bootmgr is missing), and when I try to run the .exe for windows 7 it says it can't find the path. Even if it's right there on the desktop.
Let's see, how did you put it on a flash drive? I guess you downloaded a .iso file, copy+pasting it on the flash drive won't make it bootable.
Yeah, and I also tried extracting the ISO to the flash drive. I'm burning the .iso to a disk at the moment, hopefully that will work. [editline]4th March 2011[/editline] Just my luck, my CD tray won't read any disc now.
If you want to burn it to a disk, you have to use something like [url=http://infrarecorder.org/]infrarecorder[/url] But since your CD drive doesn't seem to be working, [url=http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839]this[/url] should be able to make your USB flash drive bootable.
[QUOTE=ze beaver;28426678]If you want to burn it to a disk, you have to use something like [url=http://infrarecorder.org/]infrarecorder[/url] But since your CD drive doesn't seem to be working, [url=http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839]this[/url] should be able to make your USB flash drive bootable.[/QUOTE] After setting this up with the program, there's a couple files in the flash drive. Do I put the .iso on the drive or extract it ? [b]Edit:[/b] I tried it with .iso and it would boot to a blank DOS looking screen with the flashing letter input thinger, and wouldn't do anything else.
If it says your on a temporary profile: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215[/url] Probably it froze in the middle of changing stuff and something important like the registry fucked up
[QUOTE=Tobba;28427479]If it says your on a temporary profile: [URL]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215[/URL] Probably it froze in the middle of changing stuff and something important like the registry fucked up[/QUOTE] When I try to open a lot of .exe files (like regedit.exe) it says that it doesn't exist. They're still there, I tried running one off of my flash drive and it said it didn't exist, even if I moved it to the desktop. Also, whenever I try to open the explorer window, like control panel, an error message pops up that says "No such interface supported". I'm going a little bit crazy. For some reason I can run Firefox and Steam though. Thanks for the help so far though, on most Windows forums I get stuff like "Your computer isn't good enough"
Update, maybe good: I 'borrowed' my brother's cd tray, and it can read all the discs, but I still can't get it to boot off of it. I put the .iso on it and everything.
Use infrarecorder to burn it on your CD : 1. Open up Infrarecorder (duh) 2. Click on "Write image" 3. Browse to your .iso file 4. Select it 5. Burn it As simple as that.
[QUOTE=DiscoBiscut;28427913]When I try to open a lot of .exe files (like regedit.exe) it says that it doesn't exist. They're still there, I tried running one off of my flash drive and it said it didn't exist, even if I moved it to the desktop. Also, whenever I try to open the explorer window, like control panel, an error message pops up that says "No such interface supported". I'm going a little bit crazy. For some reason I can run Firefox and Steam though. Thanks for the help so far though, on most Windows forums I get stuff like "Your computer isn't good enough"[/QUOTE] Sounds like the file tables got fucked up on the part that tells where on the disk the data is Your pretty much fucked since finding the data might be even impossible
I think you're right. I got the windows disk to work, and ran the repair. I did the memory repair and startup repair, and neither fixed anything. I also don't have a restore point. I guess I'll have to reinstall Windows, unless that wants to fuck up too.
yeah, if you want to boot from a disk, it needs to eb an image disk type. just put the disk in, and restart your computer.
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