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[SOLVED] Windows 10 destroyed Windows 7

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SteveSFL

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Hello again, I am at a loss and really could use some expert advise.


Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit on a single drive and Windows 10 on another drive Dual boot.

I had an issue with windows update which was fixed by Brian, and I was able to do the updates, I also had other issues with the SFC not fixing some other issues. At this point I did a in-place repair, this went well, I did have issues with Windows update not working but with a little research I was able to solve the issue myself, everything was working great all patches updated, manual restore point created, all tests passed and was very happy with my system until Windows 10 decided it was going to do an update, so I went ahead and allowed windows to complete.

On reboot I had 3 options
Windows 10 setup
Windows 7
Windows 10

Normally Windows continues the installation process and I do not have to select nothing, since it did not move I decided to selected setup, all this does is reboot, selecting Windows 10 did the same reboots..
On Windows 7 it says : starting Windows but does nothing else.

This leads me to believe that the boot files got corrupt, how can I recover?

I have tried:

Boot Repair no help. Utility I downloaded from Boot Repair
Ran SFC off of the DVD, cannot repair
Ran CHKDSK /f no issues
tried restoring, this was successful but Windows 7 would not boot - Starting Windows - then nothing, no animation

Thank you

Steve
 
Sort of Fixed I still could use some help please:

OK so after trying several things like this:

How to Fix Windows 7 When It Fails to Boot

MBR FIX & Active Partition fixes only.

This did not work at all, when I booted into Win 10 setup or Win 10 (boot selection) it would just reboot, when I choose Windows 7 it would display Starting Windows and hang, not even the windows logo would show. This lead me to believe that my BOOT section on my primary D: drive was fried on the 300gb drive.

So after 3 days of thinking about this issue I came up with the following:

Unplug the Win7 drive put the Win10 drive as primary ON THE MOBO (SATA port 0) boot off of the win7 DVD and install Win 7 on the 150 drive. After this completes, shut down the PC plug in the 300gb drive into the SATA port 1 NOT 0, boot the PC and edit your boot partition and add win 7 from the 300gb drive, reboot and choose the down drive. My system came up......

Now the help, my next step is to copy the boot partition from the 150 drive to the 300 drive, What is the best way to do this? I know I have to boot off of a DVD like Unbuntu or even the Win 7 DVD , I need to run the attrib command to be able to get all data (files) from the drive, what would you recommend? Which attribs do I use? should I know anything before I do this?

Any help is appreciated.... TY again..


ETA:
When I booted into the recovered drive windows stated that the: system restore completed successfully from 6/3/15.... one of the things that I had tried....

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I would start over. Install Windows 7, then Windows 10.

But jeep in mind, Windows 10 RTM will be out soon.

Whenever you play with a beta product, you must be prepared for completely unpredictable results.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2
 
jcgriff2 said:
I would start over. Install Windows 7, then Windows 10.

But jeep in mind, Windows 10 RTM will be out soon.

Whenever you play with a beta product, you must be prepared for completely unpredictable results.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2
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I CANNOT DO THIS...................
 
x BlueRobot said:
Could you please explain why? Any difficulties?
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Hello and thank you for your reply, yes, I do not want to do a clean install because I cannot replace my software no moneys to do so, I will not be able to get all of the patches, for like, MS Office 2003 pro.

I have kept researching my issue, but have not had the time to try 1 thing I found on the net. I need to buy anther hdd to duplicate my current drive before I try this.


I believe that my catalogs are messed up and they need to be rebuilt, found this here https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B6AB8673282F1AA4!322&authkey=!AMapzBLQoS9Aj1g&ithint=file,txt

I believe this was from NeoSmart Tech, Do the cmds look right to you? I will be creating a 2 part batch file(s) placing a pause after the execution, just to make sure that all of the cmds ran normally.


Well thanks for the reply, Steve
 
SteveSFL said:
x BlueRobot said:
Could you please explain why? Any difficulties?
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Hello and thank you for your reply, yes, I do not want to do a clean install because I cannot replace my software no moneys to do so, I will not be able to get all of the patches, for like, MS Office 2003 pro.

I have kept researching my issue, but have not had the time to try 1 thing I found on the net. I need to buy anther hdd to duplicate my current drive before I try this.


I believe that my catalogs are messed up and they need to be rebuilt, found this here https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B6AB8673282F1AA4!322&authkey=!AMapzBLQoS9Aj1g&ithint=file,txt

I believe this was from NeoSmart Tech, Do the cmds look right to you? I will be creating a 2 part batch file(s) placing a pause after the execution, just to make sure that all of the cmds ran normally.


Well thanks for the reply, Steve
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Sorry for the delay, my issue is SOLVED, and it was the issue in the quote, I created 2 batch files using NOTEPAD while in DOS recovery mode and all is good... Booting off of a single drive....

Thanks again for a great sight.... Steve
 

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