Just a small update to say that I have tried the dism thing, as well as done some more chkdsk calls (which actually found bad sectors to fix this time), but the situation has not become better....

F8 after F5 or F12 brought me to a black screen. The flashing cursor screen is what comes up before the black screen.

However with msconfig, I can set it up so that it will automatically boot into...

So it is just a reset in the end...

Is there any way to force booting into safe mode without access to msconfig in WinPE?

I can boot into normal setup media, just not your Bootable PE Rescue Disk one.



Just to be safe I did this too, but to no avail. To list everything I did in regards to the black screen issue:...

I have gone into the bios to set it to automatically boot up from CD/USB by giving them the highest boot priorities. This has indeed automatically run the windows repair media off my USB several...

When I try this I get an error saying something like "this command couldn't be found".



Unfortunately I can't seem to get this working. I burnt the image onto a bootable disc but windows...

After the flashing cursor in the upper corner disappears, the screen becomes black.

If I'm not getting to windows then is there anything I can do without resetting it? I'm thinking it's a problem...

I can't get to the screen with the Windows icon. Just to be safe I tried this anyway (assuming that what comes up after the blinking cursor screen is said Windows icon), doing it 7 times when the...

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to get into safe mode as a last resort for solving a 'boot to black screen' problem, but it's been impossible for 7 hours of attempts now. I can't login--I can't even get...