How to Fix Black Screen in Windows at Startup?

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  • Author Daisy Lee
  • Published May 22, 2010
  • Word count 433

Is your Windows computer unbootable with a black screen? Are you unable to log into your computer and access data from it? This behavior is caused by missing or corrupt boot files of Microsoft Windows operating system. It does not allow you to log into your system and access data from your Windows hard drive. In such circumstances, you may lose your valuable data. In order to get your valuable data back in such cases, Partition Recovery becomes essential.

In particular, the black screen occurs when you reboot a Windows x86-based system. The system stops responding with an empty black screen just after the POST (Power-On Self Test). This problem occurs every time when you attempt to reboot your Windows computer.

What Causes Black Screen in Microsoft Windows?

You may come across this behavior if the below conditions are true:

The MBR (Master Boot Record) is corrupt.

Corrupted Partition Table.

NTLDR (NT Loader) is corrupt.

Windows boot sector is damaged.

Fragmented MFT if your boot partition is NTFS.

In such cases, system refuses to boot up. To retrieve your lost data, Recover Partition data by solving this problem.

How to Solve Black Screen in Microsoft Windows?

Try out the following things to work around this issue:

Create Windows boot disk and start your system from it. If you are able to boot the system, immediately backup all your important data.

Scan your Windows hard drive using a latest anti-virus software to check whether the hard drive is infected by viruses or not.

Verify that your computer has a valid MBR. Boot your system from a virus-free DOS v5.0 boot disk with the FDISK on it. Execute "FDISK /MBR" command.

Repair Windows installation by booting the system from Boot disk. Select "Inspect Boot Sector" and "Restore Startup Environment" options. It helps you to fix damaged boot sector.

If none of the above methods work, hard drive formatting and operating system reinstallation is the only option to replace the damaged boot and system files. However, it removes all the data from your Windows hard drive, causing serious data loss.

At this point, Partition Recovery Software come for your help. They employ high-end scanning algorithms to systematically scan entire Windows hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They enable easy, fast, and secure Partition Recovery in all cases of data loss.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recover lost files, folders, and partitions from Windows hard drive. It retrieves data from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is usable with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

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