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Can't finish windows installation\ Need help restoring backup
Hi, I recently uninstalled Ubuntu from my laptop. It was dualbooted with Win7. I ran into some problems with getting rid of Grub, but I solved that problem. So what I did was inserted my 'System Disk', not OS disk, where I was able to restore my OS to factory settings with keeping all of data in 'C:\BACKUP'.
Now this is where the problem starts, when the PC restarts, there is an error that pops up after the screen says 'starting services'. The error is: Cannot complete windows installation. You must restart the computer to finish installation.
I am also not able to do a system restore because it is saying that I don't have system protection enabled. And I'm assuming I can't enable it in the recovery disk's command prompt because I don't have powershell.
Is there anything I can do without resorting to a full factory reset? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Acer Aspire 5742
Windows 7 HP 64 bit.
EDIT: Ok, I ended up figuring out how to finally do a system restore, but now, when upon completion, I get a 0x8000ffff error that pops up. Also, cannot perform sfc /scannow. Any Ideas?
EDIT: Figured it out without losing any data.
Last edited by GnarHoff; 05 Dec 2011 at 03:06.