Yesterday, my computer crashed as I was using it and ever since then I have not been able to boot the computer normally or through safe mode. Before this happened, I was trying to do a full scan of my computer with avast and it just locked up, so I suspect I have been infected with a particularly nasty virus.
I found the thread containing the various fixes for people having a similar problem to mine, so I went ahead and made my own thread cause that one was quite large already.
When I boot up in safe mode, my computer only shows a black screen and the mouse. When the drivers load before starting safe mode, the last one listed is the avast driver like the person in the thread before.
My computer is an HP Probook 4535s laptop and I am running windows 7. Unfortunately I am not sure whether I have 32 or 64 bit and now I can't even check because my computer can't boot up.
I have already tried the fixes that were in the beginning of the thread in order to give essexboy a txt file: The windows iso dropbox link posted in the thread just leads to a 404 now, so I took both the 32 and 64 bit iso's from this website:
http://techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/ I don't know if that is ok or works with the process essexboy suggested. When I used rufus to put either the 32 or 64 bit windows 7 iso onto my flashdrive, everything came out alright. However, when I booted my computer with windows on the flash drive, it never detected another operating system on my computer and even more oddly, I couldn't find the flash drive using the file browser on notepad either. The only new drive was given the letter X and titled BOOT, but it didn't have the same specs as my flashdrive (had smaller memory). This happened both times, nothing changed if i loaded the 32 or 64 bit onto the flashdrive. I am not incredibly software savvy, so maybe this wouldn't change anything anyway? Perhaps I did this whole process wrong? Please help me out, and thank you for helping me and so many other people on here!