when EVER i turn my laptop on it goes to a black screen and says "Windows failed to START. a recent hardware or software change might be the cause"
 first of all i cant go PAST the windows error recovery page so i thought i would restore the computer. but it take me back to the error page! please help...anyone?? First, this is a forum not a chat room. Please stop bumping your post - we will reply when we can. And please do not start multiple threads for the same problem. I've merged and deleted your other posts and moved this to the appropriate forum.

Second, What is new or different since the last time everything worked properly (ie, new hw, new SW, virus, error, etc)?

Third, you need to tell us about your computer hardware and OSsorry for all that.. im new here.. i have windows 7 and all i remember is that i updated my macafee and then restarted my computer. then bam the black screen apeared it happened LIKE 3 months ago but i could never find a solution then i found this website and thought i would give it a shot