spikoman69
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Last time i had this problem, i would do a repair install and get on windows, but once i would power down and start back up, i got the black screen again. After awhile of doing this, repair install wouldnt work, and after it copied the files in the first part of the install, it would restart and go to the black screen again. I RMAed the drive and got a new one. This was 5 months ago. On the replacement harddrive, im now having the same problem. Repair install only worked once. Now i cant get the black screen to say what file is missing or corrupt even like it did before. I called seagate and they reccomended using there seatools dos bootable disk to scan my drive. Ive done so, all scans have came back with passing results of no bad sectors. So it is my windows installation. Ive solved my problem of narrowing it down to the problem of windows. So now im trying to find anyway that i can get it to work again without reformatting. Next time i am definately going to make a small partition for windows and the rest partitioned for all my files. Any suggestions on how i can get windows to run again without losing my files and installs? Becasue 1) It is a pain to backup everything onto a harddrive, then reinsall windows, move files on, reinstall all my programs and stuff 2) I have dial up only so redownloading stuff is a pain in the. When i type fixmbr in the recovery console it says WARNING backup important files before using this command. Does this mean fixing my master boot record could delete or cause all my files the become inaccessable? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.