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No actually. Which i find odd because it should automatically save restore points right? I have had this windows 8 install for at least 6 months, so a bit odd.

No there's no other indications when it goes blank. No Blinking cursor, no mouse pointer. The hard drive light flickers a bit then the screen stays blank. If I leave it for a few minutes the backlight of the screen dims and lights up again when i press a button, so i guess its not completely...

This is all in the command prompt via the win 8 boot options "troubleshooting" menu. I need not manually assign the Win 8 partition a drive letter here. The only time i ever did that,earlier in the thread, is in Win 7 because that hides the windows 8 partition. No need to do that manually...

This only the case in windows 7 which disables the win 8 partition, which is fine by me. As you can see in a previous screenshot its labelled as System Reserved when i plug it into another laptop via a USB Caddy, and also is labelled as that. When i choose Command Prompt via the Troubleshooting...

Forget the whole not assigning a Win 8 partition a drive letter thing - that only happens when i boot into Win 7 and like i said above i really dont mind about not accessing my win 8 partition in win 7. When I boot my computer i get a Windows 8 operating system select screen where i can choose...

Okay below is my results from the above commands. I'm not sure if this will shed any light on the problem as i do believe these partitions were behaving in the same manner in Windows 7 even before, when Windows 8 did boot correctly. But you know more than I :) C:\Windows\system32>diskpart...

I'm pretty sure this screen wouldve looked the same before i had a problem with booting windows 8. If you look at the previous screenshot where i plugged the HDD via an external USB caddy into another laptop, that 50gb partition does have a drive letter and is shown as NTFS. It is only this way...

Here's the disk management screen after booting into windows 7 with the hard drive in question. the partition to the right is the partition windows 8 is installed on which is never seen or allocated a drive letter in windows 7.

ah, ok. I can boot into win 7 and do another screenshot, one minute..

Oh I should also mention: booting windows 8 into safe mode has the same problem: stuck on blank screen

Update: I have tried going into command prompt and using this guide to fix the windows bootloader: I have typed these whilst at c:\ (what is seen by command prompt as the system reserved partition). However the last two commands keep insisting that no windows installations can be found on any...

Saltgrass: If I plug in my hard drive to an external USB caddy and plug it into another laptop, i can access disk management. Above is the screen I get. My HDD in question is "Disk 2". Superfly: I have tried CHKDSK but it returned as having no faults. Although, what partition did you use CHKDSK...

i did try automatic repair but it just said, after restarting and diagnosing, "automatic repair could not repair your pc" i will look into the startup repair thing. kind of strange how win 8 was starting fine before though ??

Hello I recently took my hard drive out of my laptop, and plugged it into an external USB drive to copy some files to another laptop. Upon putting the hard drive back into my laptop, windows 8 would no longer boot. It would get to the Operating System select screen (I also boot Win 7 on this...