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Thanks. That might well have been a factor. In the end, I took a chance and ran Windows Recovery which got me back into full Windows and, as a major bonus, didn't touch my Ubuntu partitions. I only had to run bcdedit /set "{bootmgr}" path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi again from the command...

Ok. I'm now pretty sure that I've got an authentication problem. Using ctrl-alt-del at the black screen, I am able to access the task manager and get a command line. From there I can run slmgr which, depending on the argument I supply, will either display my account status or dump me into...

There's some good material there. I'll report back if I find the solution to my problem. Thanks.

Hi, I've got a one week old Sony Vaio laptop with Win8 that started failing on login. The first symptom seems to have been Firefox failing to load any image files - just raw text. I believe that began right after a reboot. The next attempt to boot failed after the password screen, leaving me...