I get "starting windows" on one black screen, then "please wait" with windows 7 home premium at the bottom of the blue screen while windows is seemingly loading, but then there is just a black screen with a cursor. There is no task bar, start menu or desktop. I can Ctrl-Alt-Del and get the blue screen with task manager etc. I can open task manager and that's where I tried to "run" explorer and it closes itself down again. CHKDSK seems to have stopped at stage 3. "281344 file SDs/SIDs processed" and now thee is just a blinking cursor.