Stuck at "Starting Windows" (Win 7)

DaraghMCN

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About a month ago, I was leaving to go to my friends place, who was in a hurry. My PC either doing updates or just Shutting Down when I just switched off my powersupply before it was done, switched off the socket and left. When I turned my computer on the next day there was a blinking white line at the top left of my monitor, and then proceeded to the 'Loading Windows' menu and then just stayed there. I went on a bunch of different forums, and read solutions such as loading in safe mode, reinstalling windows and so on. The problem is even when I tried to load safe mode, it loads a bunch of files and just freezes. And even when I try to do a system repair, it says 'Loading Files" and then freezes at a black screen. When I try to boot from my Win 7 installation disc it just tries to load windows and freezes. The only thing I can access is my BIOS. Not long ago I just left it at the Starting Windows screen for about 20 minutes and when I came back it was a black screen. Im pretty sure the problem is the HDD, and i even bought a new one but I have a bunch of data on the original I dont want to lose, and I found out ot can be retrieved.
I would really appreciate it if somebody could give me some advice and maybe tell me exactly
what the problem is. Thanks.
 
Solution
well if you need the data back from the drive then I suggest you insert the new drive on its own install windows on it then turn the machine off and insert the old drive it should boot and configure your old drive as a slave then copy the data you needed off the old drive and then you should be good.

DaraghMCN

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My PC specs are:

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K
GPU: ASUS Nvidia GeForce G5X 750 TI
RAM: HyperX FURY 8GB
PS: Corsair VS550 ATX/EPS (550W)
MOBO: ASUS A88XM-A
HDD: Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB
 
well if you need the data back from the drive then I suggest you insert the new drive on its own install windows on it then turn the machine off and insert the old drive it should boot and configure your old drive as a slave then copy the data you needed off the old drive and then you should be good.
 
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