A black screen with the mouse cursor

I tried to press F8 frequently during the start up to enter the safe mode with cmd, but seems that windows ignores my pressings. i made a bootable flash drive and wrote a command to enter the safe mode. but when it enters the windows, i can hear that welcoming tone of the windows, see a black screen with the mouse cursor and the loading circle beneath it. is there any way i can overcome this?

-I also tried repair & system restore via bootable win 10 usb

Tried pressing "Ctrl + Shift + Esc"? if the Task Manager can appear during the black screen with mouse, then you can type "explorer.exe" in the File > Run New Task.

Caledon Ken said:

Hi Mergho.

Lets start at the beginning. What happened? Did your machine crash, did you install something, were you just booting up?

Then what error message or symptoms did you see, please be as specific as possible.

F8 is no longer valid.

If you want to enter the Advance Startup either hold the shift key down and click restart or...

Windows is programmed to enter after two unsuccessful starts so;

Power your machine on, when you see the spinning dots hold power key down until device powers off. Power on, see the dots hold the power key down until it is off. Power on and it should enter the menu.

Here is the tutorial

Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

Plenty of Windows system have Restore points shut off. Should you be successful in getting it restarted please enable.

If you could post those answers it will help members help.


Ken

The problem happened suddenly without installing anything. i remembered that i've encountered this problem before and chkdsk /f c: or /R c: has solved my problem. i tried doing that again but i got the following msg :failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.

iDamn said:

Tried pressing "Ctrl + Shift + Esc"? if the Task Manager can appear during the black screen with mouse, then you can type "explorer.exe" in the File > Run New Task.

nth happened :/

Caledon Ken said:

Hi Mergho.

Sorry to hear that you've had this before and that you can't run chkdsk. I would be suspect of the disk even if you get back in.

Your first objective should be to get your data off the drive just to ensure it is safe. Do you have a recent backup?

Then could you run chkdsk withh all theses switches

chkdsk c: /r /f /v

If you are booting from media please ensure you Windows drive is drive C:

To confirm once you boot press shift + F10. This should take you to command prompt. Then enter these commands

diskpart
list disk
exit

The List disk should provide the info you need.

Once data is off and chkdsk run you could try enter the the Advance Startup Option and attempt a Reset this PC.

If that fails maybe Kyhi Recovery drive using Macrium will help.

Windows Boot issues

Ken

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unfortunately, i don't have a recent backup.. is there a way i can do that now through cmd?
Is Kyhi Recovery drive using Macrium the same as Rufus?

After your computer restarts several times, you should see Windows 10 Boot Options menu.

Select Troubleshoot > Advanced Options. > Command Prompt
Type

• bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
• bootrec.exe /fixmbr
• bootrec.exe /fixboot
• chkdsk /r c:
• chkdsk /r d:

Restart your computer

Talvl said:

After your computer restarts several times, you should see Windows 10 Boot Options menu.

Select Troubleshoot > Advanced Options. > Command Prompt
Type

• bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
• bootrec.exe /fixmbr
• bootrec.exe /fixboot
• chkdsk /r c:
• chkdsk /r d:

Restart your computer

Problem still persists.
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