Black Screen With Blinking Cursor On Windows 10 Startup

[Roland_14]

When I start my computer running on Windows 10 it just goes right to a black screen with the grey/white blinking cursor, nothing else. Before I had the "repairing disk errors. This might take a while" error. I got past that by using a USB installation media. Now however it just leaves me on the black screen and I have no idea how to get past it. I tried using the command prompt solutions but that didn't work. However I did notice that when I was using the command prompt it said "x:sources" instead of "c: (name)". I feel that this might have something to do with whatever is wrong. I have another hard drive that I tried to swap out for the other one, thinking I could just reinstall Windows and my programs onto that (I have the windows installer USB). When I tried that it said the computer already had windows installed and didn't fix the problem. Any and every solution is greatly appreciated as I am at a total loss on what to do.

 

[labibhasan731]

Is your Windows genuine or a trial?

 

[Colif]

X is a ram drive set up when you run Windows off a USB

Could be the boot files for PC are corrupted, PC isn't booting as the file it needs isn't there. See if the fix here helps: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-rebuild-the-bcd-in-windows-2624508

 

[Roland_14]

X is a ram drive set up when you run Windows off a USB

Could be the boot files for PC are corrupted, PC isn't booting as the file it needs isn't there. See if the fix here helps: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-rebuild-the-bcd-in-windows-2624508

I tried that solution and sadly it didn't work. After running through the 10 steps and finishing with the "bootrec /rebuild bcd" command the desired output wasn't the same. The output I got was "successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 0. The operation completed successfully.". Since you said X is a ram drive should I try and get to the c drive? If I should try that how should I go about doing that? Finally I figured I would try the whole procedure you linked again when I got to "bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup" it said it couldn't be found. I'm not sure how that might affect the problem if it would affect the problem. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated

 

[Roland_14]

Is your Windows genuine or a trial?

My windows is genuine.

 

[Colif]

when you tried to install on HDD, was the other drive in the PC? I assume hdd doesn't have windows on it?

lets see what partitions look like

change boot order so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose command prompt
type diskpart and press enter
type list disk and press enter
this shows all drives available, DVD/USB and hdd, make note of hdd number
type list vol and press enter (this will show all partitions on PC).
Can you show me a screen shot of this page? Upload it to imgur and share link

this what mine shows, System partition is the boot partition. most times it should only be 450mb, my install not ideal example.

It seems odd that bootrec reporting no windows installs and yet you got that reaction trying to reinstall win 10?

Is there anything on C you can't afford to lose? See if this works

I inserted my windows installation disk and opened the command prompt. I typed notepad in which obviously opened the notepad. From there I went to file > open which opened a file explorer. I plugged an external hard drive into my USB port, and I searched for all of my most irreplaceable files and copied them onto the external drive, then once I finished, I plugged my drive into my Mac and confirmed that all the files are all there.

If notepad loads, windows is there and something odd going on here?

 

[Roland_14]

when you tried to install on HDD, was the other drive in the PC? I assume hdd doesn't have windows on it?

lets see what partitions look like

change boot order so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose command prompt
type diskpart and press enter
type list disk and press enter
this shows all drives available, DVD/USB and hdd, make note of hdd number
type list vol and press enter (this will show all partitions on PC).
Can you show me a screen shot of this page? Upload it to imgur and share link

this what mine shows, System partition is the boot partition. most times it should only be 450mb, my install not ideal example.

It seems odd that bootrec reporting no windows installs and yet you got that reaction trying to reinstall win 10?

Is there anything on C you can't afford to lose? See if this works

I inserted my windows installation disk and opened the command prompt. I typed notepad in which obviously opened the notepad. From there I went to file > open which opened a file explorer. I plugged an external hard drive into my USB port, and I searched for all of my most irreplaceable files and copied them onto the external drive, then once I finished, I plugged my drive into my Mac and confirmed that all the files are all there.

If notepad loads, windows is there and something odd going on here?

Had a computer friend look at my computer and it turns out windows was fragmented. He just wiped the hard drive and my computer is working normal again. Thank you for you help.