[FunkyChunky]

So for the past month or so when booting my laptop after the "Starting Windows" screen it goes to a black screen with the cursor for around 3 - 5 mins (I cannot do anything at this screen) then it will load the login screen and from then on everything else is fine. Getting pretty annoying if I quickly need to start up my laptop.

Booting into safe mode does the same thing, I've updated drivers, system restored to a point before the issue but no luck, virus scanned etc. but still taking decades to boot up. I have nothing plugged into it either.

Specs:

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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit System Manufacturer:  Hewlett-Packard System Model:            HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC Processor:                  Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2301 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) Memory:                        6 GB DDR3 Video Graphics:                AMD Radeon HD 6490M (1 GB GDDR5 dedicated) Display:                        39,6 cm (15,6") High-Definition LED HP BrightView Display (1366 x 768) Hard Drive:                  750 GB SATA (5400 rpm)

Help would be much appreciated.

[Gareth Croke]

Seems like after a little digging around and my first instinct is that some of the boot files are borked. What you need to do is run the repair Windows 7 feature from your Windows 7 Install Disk.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetr...rtup-repair.htm

Try that link above which gives you all the details about how to run the diagnostic tool and then see if it works.

[FunkyChunky]

Yeah I ran Startup Repair from the boot menu thing as my OS came preinstalled but it said it was unable to repair it. It tries to do a system restore but I've done that and nothing changed. Really don't wanna have to re-install Windows..

[Gareth Croke]

Right, try these steps next then

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Windows + R -> cmd <enter> (this should bring up a command prompt) then type -> c: <enter> -> sfc/ scannow <enter> and let that run.

Then...

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chkdsk /f /r <enter> and let that run

Once done then try running the system startup repair again. Then report back see what has happened then.

[FunkyChunky]

Well, that seems to have worked. After literally 3 hours of chkdsk I no longer have a long wait. Thankyou man!

[Gareth Croke]

BOOOOM!... Your welcome. Out of interest did any of those steps cough up anything or did you just let it run and Windows did its usual silent fix thing.

[FunkyChunky]

QUOTE (Gareth Croke @ Monday, Jun 25 2012, 20:23)

BOOOOM!... Your welcome.  Out of interest did any of those steps cough up anything or did you just let it run and Windows did its usual silent fix thing.

chkdsk replaced some bad clusters (or something to that effect) I beliee, but everything else didn't seem to do anything. Wizardry, I tell ya.

[SyphonPayne]

sfc creates a log of what it finds/modifies in %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log . My guess is that sfc is what fixed the issue. However it wasn't bad to run a chkdsk just to make sure the HDD is in good shape.

[Slamman]

KSOD as I encountered with Vista is BlacKScreenOfDeath, the other error differing from Blue Screen of Death
KSOD happens with only a cursor mouse visible and black screen, nothing else, the OS seems alright and scans alright in fact, you reinstall from your OS disc if all else fails and MS will allow your valid COA to do so, as I found out, I was very very leery of the process but now wish I'd done it sooner.