The iso route may be your best choice to fix your install but dealing with dodgy torrents and such may not serve you well. Recommend going directly to microsoft You may have to pay to repair your windows. You broke the cardinal rules. Always make a repair and recovery disk, use system restore, and always have a system disk or iso file. I personally cant help in your iso hunt but i believe you have to by what ever means find one that works.
No it will not affect you files in anyway, its just repairs windows itself. Which ISO did you use? I have successfully used the one from the second link down on that forum page. This one
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24209.iso 2147483647 X17-24209.iso Windows 7 Home Premium x64 English
I had trouble finding the right ISO at first too but i had success with the X17-24209 from that link. Make sure you use the official Microsoft usb creator. I have used this method to fix non bootable computers several times. Hope this helps!
The site i linked is a official windows 7 forum and i personally have used a ISO downloaded from the site with success.
You can also try one of these ISO files. http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/
BTW Digital River is Microsoft's official ISO distributor so its not just some random link. I see that you have Win 7 Ultimate SP1 so make sure you get that exact ISO. You can also try the normal home premium ISO, it may work because its just system repair not a install or activation.
Hey I finally got the correct iso for my OS and got it on a usb. I used it for the repair option although the repair did not fix anything or at least not my problem, it still freezes on shutdown
Hmm, well unfortunately im not going to be much more help. The last things i can think of is maybe you're power supply is failing, im not sure how to test it though. Its likely that a clean reinstall of windows would fix it but i cant guarantee it. You may also want to run health checks on all you're HDD's and SSD's and also run memtest. Maybe try live booting linux and see if the problem is present there too. Im not sure if it will that will be effective but its all i can think of. Do you have a unused hard drive? You could install a linux distro on that and see if you can shut down. Hopefully you can get this figured out! I know how much it sucks to have weird problems like this.
Something like advanced system care may help you sort issues with your system. While its become rather bloatware like its basic functions are still very useful. Willing to bet that alot of other drivers need updating including your windows. Try it like this? Update everything you can. Then let it do its thing. However long it takes.
open start -> run -> cmd - and type shutdown /s /f /t 0
this will force a full shutdown and see if it boots normally after that.
+1 good idea!
Why thank you kind sir!!
Hey! I have no idea exactly what the problem was but advanced system care ultimate 7 seems to have fixed it!
It did take a while and actually froze my comp a few times during the scan... but after the care/action center as well as the scan and i restarted no problems followed by a shutdown. Thank you very much for the help as well as everyone who suggested trying something.
Its config windows to a predictable basic standard config. Big time saver in my book. I use the pro version for my maintenance. Glad you got it solved.:)