System Restore Failure

[SirDoom]

Long story short- I had a problem with a recent update, and uninstalling it was proving to be difficult, so I did a system restore to a few days ago.

The problem is, I believe my compy crashed toward the end of the restore (the crashing was the reason I did a restore anyway). It seemed to be working, but then it restarted (as if it was done). The cursor appeared on the screen, but behind that was a black screen. It stayed like that for several hours, then there was a hangup and the whole thing juat shut off.

Now, whenever I boot up my computer, no matter if I do it in safe mode or not, results in the curson appearing on top of a black screen. I can move che cursor around, but it never gets to the Windows 7 login screen.

 

[Skorpyo]

If you have the system disc, you can start the install process from the BIOS, and then tell it to instead restore the install.

This wipes and replaces all of the core system files. None of your other data (Games, pics, etc.) will be effected.

It's also useful for transferring HDD's between different machines without doing a re-install, but that's a different story.

 

[SirDoom]

The thing is, this is a laptop, and it didn't come with a system disc. On top of that, the windows 7 iso I do have won't work for this version.

...there is a recovery partition on the compy, but it only has one option- delete everything. There's nothing too terribly important on there, but it would take weeks to get all my music back on itunes and all my steam games redownloaded.