Dell Inspiron 1012 Reformat with black screen and cursor

Questions!

1. I have a windows cd here.. can i just put all the files it has on a usb?(since the 1012 doesn't have any cd drive) and will it read or do i have to do some procedures first?

2. I have a black screen with a cursor in normal startup, AND in safe mode. It also doesn't respond with a ctrl+alt+del.

clueless as to what to do next. :|

 

1) You need to create an ISO file.

2) A black screen with a blinking cursor is generally a bad file system. I would extract the drive and hook it up to another computer and run chkdsk /r on it.

 

1) done. i've also downloaded the win7 to usb program.

2) i'm running chkdsk right now. is there a way to just get the files from the bad hard drive? when i check the folders it's empty. :|

 

I ran chkdsk both on windows and on cmd with an /r.
still black screen with cursor. i just need to get the files from here then on to reformatting.

 

Okay did chkdsk repair anything?

Are you able to access your data from via USB connector? I would just do that and reinstall the OS.

 

it shows the folders and stuff but not the files. :|
(i was looking elsewhere. checked the users folder and found what i was looking for. )

Okay finished doing a clean install! everything's good to go. thanks tsunade-san!