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Please Help Me Fix This Stupid Laptop...

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  • Windows
  • Laptops
  • Black Screen
  • Disk Read Error
  • Windows 7
  • OS
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October 11, 2014 9:35:00 PM

Okay, so I have the black screen with movable mouse error which I have done some research on and found that it is quite common. BUT. All the solutions that I have seen require you to go into the windows startup options by pressing F8 during startup. Whenever I do this however, I just get a disk read error. I also do not have the windows 7 disc because I bought this computer used. Any help would be greatly appreciated I am stumped. Thank you in advance.

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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 9:38:47 PM

The hdd maybe corrupt if its bringing up disk errors
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October 11, 2014 9:40:08 PM

Paul NZ said:
The hdd maybe corrupt if its bringing up disk errors


That is kind of what I was scared of, are there any solutions to that other than a new harddrive and a new copy of windows?
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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 9:44:33 PM

No - buy a new drive and Windows. Install Windows on the new drive. Hopefully that's the only problem and you're done.
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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 9:47:13 PM

On Windows info. Control Panel, View Basic Info about your Computer.
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October 11, 2014 9:59:44 PM

Thank you all for your quick responses. I got the product key so if a reinstallation doesn't fix it then I'm going to assume the hard drive has failed and resort to a new hard drive and OS. Thank you again.
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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 10:00:59 PM

No probs
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