I tried the drive back in the old system and a in a virtualbox and it works fine. Im crating a live usb, restart pc and try to boot from usb. If it black screens with the blinking cursor again than it is most likely a memory module. Of course, you can also download the newest graphic card driver from your manufacturers website for the update. Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone carmen617. After formatting the drive while it was in the other computer, i put it back in the 4700, booted from the windows cd and installed xp again with no problems. Since i never got a reply to my other topic, i will create a new topic with updated information. Afterwards, an hp bios update screen displays, and the bios update begins. Anyway, heres my problem i disconnected the old hard drive, replaced it with the new drive and all i get is a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I have reset the battery held the button to clear out residual power.
Black screen and flashing cursor almost always point to boot hdd disc failure or corruption. I do not have the discs for windows 7 and i have never done a backup to my computer on discs or other hard drive. If recovering the bios did not resolve the blank screen problem, continue to the next step. Fix uefi bios boot problems on a new motherboard scottie. If i install a clean copy of windows the machine boots properly if i drop an image on the windows partition after the above step was followed the machine stops at the blinking cursor again. Your laptop is looking for the boot drive but cant find it. A external usb hard drive that is larger than your laptops hard drive.
All i get is a black screen with a flashing cursor. This can happen when moving a computer or disconnecting and reconnecting devices. Either way, the computer might be trying to boot to this device but it is not a bootable device. Hp pavilion black screen and flashing cursor on boot. Asus, changed hard drive, black screen and cursor hard. Black screen with cursor installing win7 from usb lenovo y500 shipped with windows 8, i purchased windows 7 ultimate x64, installed from usb dvdrom drive.
Hp notebook pcs computer starts but screen remains blank. Boot to black screen with blinking cursor, fresh install. Whenever i start the computer, after post there is a blinking cursor on top left corner of black screen, nothing else. Hi, ive never installed a new hard drive before but for some reason i thought i would be able to do it. Boot to a blinking cursor after acronis successfully. Also to note that after an image task the os will load, but upon reboot when it goes to the fog pxe screen and tries to. Old xp computer boots to black screen and blinking cursor. I believe it must be a setting i am missing in the bios, i disabled the uefi and set the drive to ffd. When i select to boot from usb, after that i am stacked at black screen with blinking cursor, and i cant do anything. Searched for a solution online and determined i had bad sectors which prevented w10 from booting. Running windows 10 and have 2 hard disks, 2 partitions each. New hard drive wont boot system building and upgrading. Ubuntu live usb shows blinking cursor on boot ask ubuntu. Turned on computer and was stuck on a black screen with a blinking cursor.
Every time i turn it on it just boots to a flashing cursor on a black screen. Windows crashed boots to a black screenblinking cursor. The blinking cursor appears when the system cannot find an appropriate os. It seemed very likely, after extensive troubleshooting, that the hard drive might have been going bad. Optiplex 755 boots straight into black screen w blinking cursor new hdd, trying to install os new hard drives are not formatted and do not have windows installed.
In a moment you should see the task manager page pop up, here click on the file menu and select run new task. Black screen with cursor installing win7 from usb solved. Windows 10 wont boot stuck on blinking cursor black. Black screen with flashing cursor when trying to install.
The same thumb drive formatted with the usb dvd download tool boots fine on my asus laptop. It just goes the blinking cursor i downloaded the hard drive firmware upgrade from lenovo and ran it but it said there was no firmware to upgrade. Page 1 of 2 new hard drive wont boot posted in system building and upgrading. However my laptops fan is starting to work hard seems like cpu is doing something but blinking cursor is still on and nothing changes. I reinstalled windows 7 couple of times but its still the same. Last year, the hard drive died, no longer had the dvd took a picure of the key, thank gods or usb dvddrive, and to reinstall i needed to download the digital river windows 7 iso, make a. Windows me boots to just a blinking cursor posted in windows 9598me. Windows 10 unable to boot with black screen and blinking. Basically you want to change your boot order from booting your hard drive first to booting to. I am able to get to bios and the boot menu but that is it. Instead, you are met with a blank screen with a blinking white cursor, and pressing del or f2 does nothing. When you turn the thing on, it posts and then goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. July 17, 2011 after upgrade on my hp probook, windows7 will not start. The other catch is that when you set sata to ata an ahci sata dvd drives will no longer boot.
I ran the full post diagnostics and it sees the drive but does not boot. Blinking cursor after booting from hard drive in fog menu. Go into your bios and see if your hard drive is listed. I tried making it with rufus first and then with the windows 7 usb dvd download tool. But sometimes windows boots successfully1 in 100 times. Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone. If you have a usb drive attached, chances are the blinking cursor is caused by invalid bootstrap code in the master boot record mbr on that drive which has caused the normal boot execution to stop without returning control to the bios. Pulled new drive, replaced old drive, examined clone which looks good except that on the original drive the restore partition is the second logical drive, on the clone the restore partition is on the. Page 1 of 2 windows 10 black screen with blinking cursor after boot up posted in windows crashes and blue screen of death bsod help and support. The power led light remains on, and the screen remains blank for about 40 seconds. If the drive is viable mechanically use the vendors testing software to check you have a windows boot sector or loading issue. Select tool from the menu and select create winpe bootable disk 3.
When the 7010s boot from hard drive in fog, no issue. If you have an hp, you may be familiar with the hp black screen with a blinking cursor when trying to boot. Why do i see only a blinking line when my pc boots. When the 5040s boot from hard drive in fog, a black screen with a blinking white cursor appears. Keep in mind both of these activities concerning the d. The screen never goes away until powering off the machine. I have run a windows 7 system recovery start up repair. Windows vista wont boot blinking cursor tech support.
My laptop is not starting and is showing a blinking cursor. There is nothing for the hard drive or the boot sequence. If it posts and stays up then you can get into the bios and it is most likely either a configuration problem in bios or the hard drive. System wont boot just a blinking cursor ive been working on this hp pavilion dv2700 and it wont boot. Use its file explorer to copy user files off to a usb or external drive. When you meet the problem that black screen after cloning disk, you can try to follow the steps below. To check your hard drive, try a linux live cd and see if its recognized or not. I have done a complete system restore with the image on the hard drive. I ordered a replacement western digital 500gb hard drive, installed it, tried using the discs that dell datasafe created and the first disc wouldnt boot. Hello, needing some help i have a computer that someone tried to clone its hard drive and looks like they. Next day when switching it on i get the black screen with cursor flashing in top left corner. Plunked in new drive and system wont boot just gives me flashing cursor.
Prior activities while the ssd was removed includes booting from a fd to ubuntu, attempting a windows 10 install on the d. Dell laptop black screen flashing cursor solved ccm. Windows me boots to just a blinking cursor windows 9598me. I tried various troubleshooting techniques of my own, but our thinkcentre m92z still only boots to a blinking cursor. Get a windows dvd windows 7,8,10 dvd, or an older windows vista, xp disc is also partially usable, or a bootable windows. Im pretty sure this happened a day or 2 after i used. Free linux do not install to your hard drive, just test drive it.
Boot to black screen with blinking cursor, fresh install, not hdd. Page 1 of 3 windows crashed boots to a black screenblinking cursor, locked posted in windows 10 support. Weve adjusted the boot order, weve been able to select the boot prompt to manually select the internal dvd drive, a usb dvddrive, or the hard drive no matter what, only goes to a blinking cursor and stays there. Hp pavilion black screen and flashing cursor on boot hi. Dimension 8250 boots to black screenblinking cursor ok, i am now posting this from the once dead 4700. But when my computer restarts nothing shows up just a blank screen with cursor blinking on it. If you have physical access to the machine, simply remove the usb drive andor change the boot order to pick.
Page 1 of 3 windows 98 blinking cursor posted in windows 98, 95, me. However, when i put the flash drive ive been using in to boot, after the bios splash page i just get a blinking cursor and it never fully boots. Computer boots to black screen with blinking cursor. Here are ways to fix black screen error when booting windows. Boot to black screen with blinking cursor fresh install. And connect your original hard drive to your computer as an external hard drive. Connect the new hard drive to the inside of your computer as the boot disk. Remove all devices and try to start your computer again. Put the original hard drive into the laptop and use the windows system image in the control panel to make an image onto an external hard drive, which i presume you have, then remove the hard drive, install the new one, and boot up from the dvd you just burnt when windows finished making the image a window pops up offering to make the repair. This means you either have a hard drive failure or less likely the boot settings in your laptop have changed. Windows vista wont boot blinking cursor this is a discussion on windows vista wont boot blinking cursor within the windows 7, windows vista support forums, part of the tech support forum category. Cpu ram and video will typically yield bsod or quick shutdown.
Bios recognizes the drive, and i am able to access files on the drive from the os on my d. Windows 7 wont boot up, black screen with blinking cursor location. Computer boots to black screen with blinking cursor a device is connected. Whenever i have the additional drives physically connected the computer boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor and will not let me do anything as after a few keystrokes the machine makes the invalid stroke beeping noise. But before you go rmaing anything, try changing the following settings in. If i make the old hdd disk 1 and set it to boot from there, i get a screen to choose a windows install, and from there i can boot into the ssd or the hdd. If i install a clean copy of windows the machine boots properly.
Original hard drive replaced with much bigger hard drive over a year ago, not partitioned. Dimension 8250 boots to black screenblinking cursor. Within seconds of booting from it all i get a black screen with a flashing cursor. In some cases, these problems can indicate a defective motherboard or other component. Both the 7010s and 5040s boot from the hard drive not in fog just fine. Optiplex 755 boots straight into black screen w blinking. Screen boots to black w flashing cursor page 2 dell. Did you leave a usb flash drive connected to your computer or maybe an external hard drive. Heres how to fix windows 10 black screen with cursor before login. New ssd boots to a black screen with flashing cursor. Ive tried changing the boot priority to cd and redoing the windows on it, but i.
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