I've got the Black Screen w/ cursor issue(before login),but still getting Black Screen in safe mode.

[baseball1992]

I have a lenovo laptop and I'm having the issue with the black screen. I know I need to get into safe mode to disable my video card so it reinstalls the drivers, but when I hit safe mode I'm still getting the black screen. What do I do now, could I be doing something wrong?

Its also weird how sometimes when I go to recovery mode, Start settings isn't always an option.

 

[Norton]

I had a similar problem on a new Dell Laptop. Try running from admin command prompt sfc /scan now.
Check the HD manufactures web site and see if they offer a HD surface scan, most do.
My scan showed a defective HD. Symptoms were black scree with mouse pointer stuck in the centre of screen.

If your PC has corrupt Windows system files, here is how you can fix them without re-installing Windows.

1) Open up an elevated command prompt (cmd with admin rights)
2) Type in "sfc /scannow" without quotes, and hit enter. Windows will check for and attempt to repair any corrupt files.

If SFC /scannow is unable to fix some of the corrupted files (EDIT: This command only seems to work on Windows 8 or later):
1) Open up an elevated command prompt (cmd with admin rights)
2) Type in "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth" without quotes, and hit enter. Windows will now download and replace any corrupt files.

If you re-run SFC /scannow after you perform these steps, you will notice that it won't find any integrity violations, which means that all corrupt Windows files are fixed.

Useing this method instead of simply re-installing (or upgrading) Windows? Well, first off, you keep all of your files, applications, and settings. And secondly, you won't have to re-install all the Windows Updates after re-installing Windows.

 

[Trouble]

Try booting from the installation media
The installation media can be obtained through here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
Once you have downloaded the ISO you can use ImgBurn to burn it to a DVD http://imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
OR
Rufus to burn it to a USB ThumbDrive http://rufus.akeo.ie/

When you've managed to boot from the installation media you need to click the Repair Your PC link on the second page after the Choose a Language and Keyboard layout page.
That should get you to the Advanced Troubleshooting options, where you should have an option to perform a System Restore from there, see if you have a restore point old enough to get you back to a point in time prior to the problem.