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One of the errors experienced during the installation of Windows 8.1 is a blank black screen that shows up right after the operating system is successfully copied to local drives.

Lots of users have already confirmed the issue and while Microsoft is still working on a fully working patch that’s supposed to address the bugs, it decided to provide us with some instructions on how to fix the blank black screen received after Windows 8.1’s installation.

Redmond recommends users to create a Windows 8.1 recovery disk or a bootable install media to deal with the Master Boot Record issues that may exist on your computer.

“This can be a fairly easy fix, particularly if you've already created a Windows 8.1 Recovery disk. If not, you'll need to use your bootable install media for Windows 8.1 or find a working Windows 8.1 device and create a recovery disk,” a post onTechNet reads.

To create a recovery disk you need a working Windows 8.1 device, be it a tablet, a notebook, or a desktop PC, and a USB flash drive.

Open the Search charm on the working device, type “create a recovery drive,” launch the wizard and follow the provided steps to complete the process.

“The Recovery Drive Creator will wipe the usb key, and create a bootable partition with the Recovery tools installed. Once the wizard is complete, remove the usb key, and boot your impaired Windows 8.1 via the new usb Recovery Drive,” the post explains.

Plug in the USB recovery disk and restart the device getting a blank black screen and hit ESC or F9 during the booting process to select the boot drive.

Hit Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Command Prompt.

In the Command Prompt window, type the following command and hit the Enter key:

bootrec /fixmbr

In case the process completed successfully, you should see a messaging reading “The operation completed successfully.”

Reboot the device, remove the USB recovery drive, and try to boot into Windows 8.1 once again.



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MS-DOS 3.3 was the tightest product they ever made / licensed. Even number releases have always sucked since the days of DOS 2 or 4

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I faced a problem with broken master boot record ...

I managed to fixit by booting from an old xp cd.. because all windows 8 and windows 8.1 recovery tools failed to fix mbr

XP cd is a must have tool for such cases .

Strange from MS install and then find a fix for a problem caused by install.

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unfortunately windows 8.1 is following the formula of 1 bad windows release gap....and even worse than windows 8 birth diseases :thumbsdown:

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Freddy Anderson

The most awaited Windows 8.1 has disappointed many users !! Though using Windows 8, but nothing can beat Windows 7 !!

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Windows 8.1 is a Friday finish.

I wonder why they are rushing to push the OS to public knowing that it is not realy ready, and even though try to fix the holes with fixes that need to be fixed.

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This is very disappointing from MS. On the way to the upgrades, they are making things critical for the end users. This is how things dies.

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Good night,

Realized the commands above and thought it would work, carrying every 5 minutes my pc hangs and rebooted and a message that I took the photo.

Can anyone help me?


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@pantuxa, a translation to English would be better. That way, you will get more users for help.

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