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Unable to boot Windows 7 after system freeze and forced shutdown
Hello all, first time poster here. I have been dealing with a Windows 7 boot failure problem for a few days now and have not been able to find a resolution. I suspect that my hard drive may have failed, but I was wondering if I could get a second opinion. The boot failure problem started after my system froze and I had to force it to shutdown by holding down the power button. Upon rebooting, I was prompted to start either System Repair or the Safe Mode options. After I chose System Repair, the process started, but it seemed to hang intermittently and took at least 30-45 minutes to complete. During this time, I noticed that the hard drive LED on my computer case was lit solid. When System Repair did complete, it said Boot Manager missing or corrupt. So I have followed all of the steps to repair the Boot Manager and I can get Windows to start loading, but after the Windows logo animation closes the system seems to hang and I have the solid hard drive LED again. I restarted in Safe Mode, but it also hangs when trying to load disk.sys with a solid hdd light and will not progress further. So I went back into the recovery environment and tried to run a chkdsk on the Windows partition, and after 3% complete it displayed the following:
Deleted corrupt attribute list entry
with type code 128 in file 88874.
Deleted corrupt attribute list entry
with type code 128 in file 88874.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (120, "")
from file record segment 88999.
Readable file record segment 88999 is not writeable.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
When running chkdisk again, it displays:
Cannot open volume for direct access.
Once again the hdd light is solid. The strange thing is that after rebooting I can load the partition in Partition Magic just fine and browse through the files.
Is there anything else I could try to get Windows bootable again, or should I start recovering the files from the drive before it becomes a total loss?
Many thanks in advance!
Last edited by Strangename; 26 Aug 2014 at 22:34. Reason: forgot to add the part about rebooting