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Question

Windows cannot boot

Jun 10, 2017 1:27PM PDT

Hello there, i've had this one problem with windows 7 that doesn't let me get past of the black screen, the one telling me that a recent change in software or hardware may have caused the problem, or something of the sort. Anyway, from there it sends me to windows boot recovery, sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and none of the options it gives me after it finishes attempting to fix the problem works either, this has happened to me three times before, and usually when that error occurs, it doesn't last long before it gets to the unrecoverable state i just mentioned, forcing me to send the computer for repairs.

My question is, can i do something to actually be prepared for something like this? Like, backup something in the computer, create an image with a disk, anything? I fear that the next time i shut down my computer, it might enter into that state, and obviously i could no longer access to internet for help. Because of that, i'll be waiting for an answer with my computer turned on.

If you did not understand what i said, i'll try to rephrase it in a manner that it would be understandable, because i'm not a native english speaker, and most of the time i use google translate things just get worse for others to actually understand.

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what type of W7 install?
Jun 11, 2017 11:06AM PDT

Is it an OEM, or from a retail (store bought) disc? Or is it a pirated copy? Venezuela is having terrible economic times and it's possible the computer came with a hacked W7 copy.

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I'm afraid i can't help you there
Jun 11, 2017 1:44PM PDT

Since the last reinstalling of windows, i don't know what type of installation they made. I'd have to ask the person which i've sent the computer before, but right now that will be difficult.

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The reason I ask is....
Jun 11, 2017 9:33PM PDT

...because Hugo in 2007 started a govt push for open source OS to be used in venezuela and VIT was the company to sell such computers exclusively using open source.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/VIT,_C.A.

I would suspect your W7 provided to you is not genuine copy and that's why you are having these problems. If the supplier or VIT computers can't or won't supply you with discs for the W7 system, or admit it never came from them with such W7 system, then you most likely were sold a bill of goods with a pirated copy of W7 on it.

You could always return it to open source. I'd suggest Ubuntu MATE, Linux Mint, or Zorin. I myself prefer and use Mint.

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Answer
I'm back.
Jun 13, 2017 7:26PM PDT

Sorry for not writing before, i was very busy attending to a very important matter.

Anyway, that important matter had to do with keeping the computer operational until this day. But i will be willing to continue to accept help for keeping it for a few months. If possible.

For a general answer to everybody, the CHKDSK worked well, it didn't go to the startup repair mode. That is great. But i can't give you a log file or a screenshot, because it only let me to do it while restarting the computer, it didn't let me do the command by any normal means (by that i mean in windows normal mode.)

And for those wondering, perhaps it may be the case that i have a pirated copy, now that i think about it, that can be a way for them to gain money every couple of months when my computer gets damaged. Guess i have to save some money to buy a really expensive original copy. If that's really what causes this, i don't want to get through this anymore. I'll buy it.

But this also means that i'll be requesting help in the future on how to uninstall this windows 7, to install the new one, while keeping all of my files, considering that i don't have any means to backup all of that data.

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w7
Aug 8, 2017 2:39AM PDT

seems to me u have crab version of w7. or u have been using windows automatic updater and loaded all what there is... which do more damage than good. that is cz MS chanced automated updater to get all w10 crab on first priority. there is some PK* updates too which R NOT compatible with few programs and r slowing them or even to shut them down cz they r made for w10 not for w7.
why i know that? easy... running NOT with product key for 3-4 years and tested all windows 7 from starter to ultimate. i have loaded w7 over 100 times to different pc:s and laps. never failed to run them. u just have to be care for what u upload from MS and what to NOT load which is more important than the first one... u can always load what u have missed, but if u load unneeded MS tracking and w10 ***** u r f.ckt up. getting rid of them is like needle finding cz if u remove them (like w10 *****) they still leave tracks to ur pc so u have to find they scheduled tasks and so on and so on.............