Windows 7 boots into black screen with mouse cursor
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I was doing stuff on my PC when it just randomly decided to restart. That happens sometimes to me, but quite rarely and it never does any harm. However this time, when it restarted and went past that windows loading screen thing, instead of going to the login screen, it just went to a black screen with the mouse cursor. I can move the cursor around but I can't click on anything or do anything (alt+ctrl+delete doesn't do anything either). I tried booting into all kinds of safe mode, but it all just ends up at the same black screen.
I've tried several things to fix it, first thing was booting from my install disk and going into the "repair your computer" thing in the install screen, but when it asks me to select my operating from the list, which only has the one OS that I have, when I select it I just get an error message saying that "this version of system recovery options is not compatible with the version of windows you are trying to repair", even though it's the disk I installed my windows from.
I also tried using a repair disk I made a while ago, but when I try to boot from it, it only gets as far as a error screen that says "windows failed to start" and then points out a CI.dll with the status 0xc0000098 and info saying "windows failed to load because a required file is missing or corrupt" and then if I press enter it goes to a window that asks me to choose an operating system to start and when I do that, it just goes back to the first error screen.
If my memory serves me correctly, I've had this happen a few times to my HTPC; I was able to fix it by pulling the power cord out, waiting 5 or so minutes, and then booting it up.
[QUOTE=Kilr;41788198]If my memory serves me correctly, I've had this happen a few times to my HTPC; I was able to fix it by pulling the power cord out, waiting 5 or so minutes, and then booting it up.[/QUOTE]
I tried unplugging it and waited like 30 minutes, didn't help. Also it's a desktop PC.
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