The other day I shut down my laptop and the next day when I turned it on it wouldn't work! It was running fine until the login screen, which was black. However, once I pressed enter I was logged into my account. But not exactly. Now all my applications and cursor is missing, it's a completely blank screen with just my background. I've tried everything I could, but so far nothing has worked.
Lenovo Thinkpad Windows 7 Won't Start Properly?
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Contact Micro$oft or Lenovo or try a Safe Mode start and do System Restore back to before this problem.
Starrysky
The first thing I would try is to get to the control panel if possible. If you can click on users and make another account. When you make the new account, DO NOT transfer anything from the old account to it. Once you have it made log out of the old one and then log into the new one. If it works then your old account somehow became corrupted. If that does not solve the problem then you want to do is run a Windows System repair disc to see if it can fix the problem. With any luck it might find a problem it can repair. If you do not have one and can find someone who has the same version of Windows you do then you can use the link below to make one.
http://windows.microsoft.com/...epair-disc
If that does not work, the the next thing is to try to recover your files. If you can get to them because of the problem then you will need a bootable thumb drive(flash drive) so you can boot the lappy. This will also allow you to verify that the lappy and its hard drive is good and all you have is a Windows problems. To boot the system you need to make a bootable thumb drive. You will need to find a working puter to download Unetbootin USB installer. You need to read the instruction carefully and know a little about Linux to use this. There can be dragons present if you do not understand what your doing. I make no guarantees.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Once you make the bootable thumb drive you need to add a OS for it to boot. I recommend Linux Mint ISO. Its UI is similar to Windows. Download Cinnamon 32bit.
http://linuxmint.com/...xmint.com/
The thumb drive boot will also allow you to check out the rest of the puter. It helps to have a thumb drive or a external drive hooked up when you boot so you can copy your data and files to.
If it has a CD/DVD you can burn Linux Mint ISO right to a CD and boot with it.
Once you got the bootable thumb drive created, insert it into one of the USB ports. Also plug in the medium you selected to copy your files to. Press the power button and start tapping the ESC key. This should bring up the boot menu. Select the USB thumb drive and it will boot to a menu asking if you want to start Linux Mint. Click on Mint and let the system boot. Find your hard drive and copy your files to your back up medium. If the hard drive is a SATA drive it will show as sda. If it has partitions then the first partition (C Drive) will show as sda1, the next partition will show as sda2 and so on. If you have 2 drives the next drive will show as sdbx. X being the partitions if it has any. Normally external drives show as sdd or sde. I have seen Linux recover data that people claimed could not be recovered. Keep in mind while looking for your files, and this is a Vista or above version of Windows, that you have to find your USER folder. The folder will look something like this. \Users\nameofuser\Documents. Repeat that for music, pictures, and videos.
Lets see if the hard drive can be made to boot again.Since the repair options are not working your best bet is to reset the lappy back to factory settings as if it just came out of the box. This will erase everything on the hard drive.
Make sure you back up all your files before doing this.
If your resetting a lappy, make sure you have the AC adapter plugged up. You do not want this process interrupted. This should take one or two hours. It is best to check on it to make sure everything is going fine.
If you can boot into Windows, click on start and then open your control panel. Then click Action Center, then click recovery. Then click on Advance recovery and select return computer to factory conditions. Answer any question and the system should reboot. Answer a few more questions and then it should go on autopilot and reset your system back to factory conditions.
If you can't boot into Windows then try Advanced boot options. When you press the power button, start tapping the F8 key. You will see the advance boot menu. Select repair your computer. (This option is available only if the tools are installed on your computer's hard disk.) Select your language and then enter your user name and password. Then click on (brand name) factory Image Restore and next. Answer the question and it should start the recovery back to factory settings.
Recovery from the BIOS/UEFI. My preferred method.
When you press the power button start tapping the F12 key for your puter and that should open the recovery, answer the question and the recovery should begin. Depending on your puter this will take one to two hours.
TWB