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Question

Windows 7 black screen on vmware

Jul 20, 2013 7:12PM PDT

About a monht ago, my windows 7 (32bit) on VMware Workstation suddenly black screen. For more information, please refer link below to see the image for my black screen;

Windows black screen image

Everytinhg find untill i pass the 'starting windwos', then all the screen become black ,the on thing i can see is trademark 'Windows 7 Home Premium' ( Like what you see above) and my cursor.

I try to make startup repair but it didnt work...I hope somebody will help me with this problem.

Thank you.

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Maybe MSFT put teeth into the license.
Jul 23, 2013 2:04AM PDT

Just a guess but MSFT did cheese off a lot of folk about the agreement where you are not allowed to put anything less than Windows 7 Pro into a VM. Now that this has failed you have to guess if they made good on their word.
Bob

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reinstall the only way to solves this problem
Aug 10, 2013 12:47PM PDT

Thank you for your answer. After a few a hour thinking & making a research on the internet, I can't find any good solution to my problem so, I decided to reinstall my windows 7 on Vmware.