Windows 8 black screen after unexpected crash/restart

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Rammy125

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I accidentally unplugged the Ethernet cable from my router whilst downloading a zip file of mp3s (from a legitimate, reliable source, before anyone asks) and my computer crashed and restarted itself. Now after the initial windows loading icon I get a black screen, I can't even start safe mode or safe mode with command prompt, they all result in a black screen with NO cursor. The screen is not in standby mode as it flashes when it is, it's just displaying black. I'm running windows 8 pro and I have not installed anything in months, I have had the same ram, gpu, CPU, hdd, for over a year, my ipod was plugged in at the same time but was in sleep mode and not actually registered in iTunes as connected. I have never had a problem like this before... Please help!
 
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Rammy125

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Tried that, still no visuals after the windows 8 logo...

Would a graphic card problem cause a random restart when not doing anything gpu related?? I'm going mad, my recovery tools aren't working I've tried a windows 7 and 8 recovery disk nothing is working and for some reason it's saying I don't have any system restore points....
 
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Try unplugging your graphics card and boot from integrated, maybe it's a bad card.
 
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Rammy125

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Unplugged card from MB and booted using VGA cable into onboard... Still same problem, I have windows 7 running on another HDD is there a program I can use to repair the other HDD from a separate OS

 
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Rammy125

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I can boot windows 7 but that's on a separate HDD it's running fine. However I still have a corrupt windows 8 HDD now as local disk D:/ which still cannot get past the loading screen without turning black,

ALSO everytime I boot up now windows says that one of my disks has to be checked for consistency but this it everytime I boot up and before windows loads, the check finishes fine and nothing comes of it but will ask again as soon as I restart

I'm now running a clean master of W7 and my slave is the corrupted W8

My goal here is to recover the HDD without having to wipe it, if at all possible
 
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