black screen on startup with flashing underscore

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  1. gonnadoit

    gonnadoit MDL Novice

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    I installed windows 7 on a seperate partition with xp and it installed fine but when I used the loader from daz my computer doesn't start up anymore. there's a flashing underscore at the top left of the screen after it loads the screen with the option to go to bios. I tried holding the r and c key but didn't work. I put in the windows 7 disc but it doesn't let me get to the screen where I can choose the repair option. any way I can fix this?
     
  2. Rosco

    Rosco MDL Addicted

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    Why doesn't it let you get to the screen where I can choose the repair option?

    What happens?
     
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  3. domatlapuk

    domatlapuk MDL Expert

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    You can try to go to Bios set up and look to Boot priority maybe window is looking for bootable device that as failure so it will not boot correctly... thanks.
     
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  4. gonnadoit

    gonnadoit MDL Novice

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    #4 gonnadoit, Nov 1, 2009
    Last edited: Nov 1, 2009
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    screen goes to the black screen with underscore. this is when the DVD is in my USB DVD drive.

    when it's in my internal one it tells me to press a key to load from it and I do but it just gives me a black screen without the underscore

    edit- not sure how I did it but I can repair it now using the win7 DVD. though I tried all the loader modes and none of them worked. do I need to change the slic type or something?

    Fixed it. see above