Hello,
I have a laptop (4yo, Acer Aspire 5742G w/ original hardware except a new hard drive) with dualboot Windows 7 64 bits (pre-installed) and Ubuntu 12.04.
This morning I turned my laptop on, and selected Windows in the Grub-menu. It showed me the 'Starting Windows' screen with the flashing orbs making the windows-logo, then the screen went black. After a minute or so I turned the laptop off with the power-button, and tried again. No difference.
At this point, I had already seen the 'Windows cannot load properly' screen, something about new hardware. (There is no new hardware, except my mouse wasn't hooked up before booting, which usually isn't such a big deal). So on the next try, I selected the Windows Recovery-option.
After a couple of minutes searching for problems, it asked me if I wanted to restore the system to an earlier point, to which I said no. My last system-restore point is many months ago, and I'd rather not lose all my data. Then it said 'Restoring system' underneath the loading bar, and when I pressed ESC / clicked 'cancel' / clicked the X at the top-right of the screen, it said ' cannot cancel this system restore' or something like that. So I let it run for a couple of minutes more, without any change.
Now I turned it off again, and since I luckily have another OS, I booted to that one which works without any problems and on which I am also writing this message. I am also able to load (mount?) the windows part of the hard drive and do stuff.
Specs:
Acer Aspier 5742G with original specs except a new harddrive, which is also already a year old
I've tried buying new RAM, but all the RAM I bought was DOR, so I put my old RAM back in, everything worked fine.
I've had problems with USB-ports suddenly stopping and starting again, so while gaming I would have no mouse for a couple of seconds, as an example.
The Windows 7 64bit OS was preinstalled when I bought the laptop around 4 years ago, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 around September/October 2013.
I still used it yesterday to try programming JAVA in NetBeans 8, and everything was working just fine!
Any solutions to how I can boot to Windows again?
I have a laptop (4yo, Acer Aspire 5742G w/ original hardware except a new hard drive) with dualboot Windows 7 64 bits (pre-installed) and Ubuntu 12.04.
This morning I turned my laptop on, and selected Windows in the Grub-menu. It showed me the 'Starting Windows' screen with the flashing orbs making the windows-logo, then the screen went black. After a minute or so I turned the laptop off with the power-button, and tried again. No difference.
At this point, I had already seen the 'Windows cannot load properly' screen, something about new hardware. (There is no new hardware, except my mouse wasn't hooked up before booting, which usually isn't such a big deal). So on the next try, I selected the Windows Recovery-option.
After a couple of minutes searching for problems, it asked me if I wanted to restore the system to an earlier point, to which I said no. My last system-restore point is many months ago, and I'd rather not lose all my data. Then it said 'Restoring system' underneath the loading bar, and when I pressed ESC / clicked 'cancel' / clicked the X at the top-right of the screen, it said ' cannot cancel this system restore' or something like that. So I let it run for a couple of minutes more, without any change.
Now I turned it off again, and since I luckily have another OS, I booted to that one which works without any problems and on which I am also writing this message. I am also able to load (mount?) the windows part of the hard drive and do stuff.
Specs:
Acer Aspier 5742G with original specs except a new harddrive, which is also already a year old
I've tried buying new RAM, but all the RAM I bought was DOR, so I put my old RAM back in, everything worked fine.
I've had problems with USB-ports suddenly stopping and starting again, so while gaming I would have no mouse for a couple of seconds, as an example.
The Windows 7 64bit OS was preinstalled when I bought the laptop around 4 years ago, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 around September/October 2013.
I still used it yesterday to try programming JAVA in NetBeans 8, and everything was working just fine!
Any solutions to how I can boot to Windows again?