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Broken Windows 7 Boot
For the past few months my Windows 7 has had an annoying problem when booting up. For reference I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as my primarily used OS, which is setup to dual boot with Windows 8.1 x64 which I use occasionally. Actually I think the problem started happening around when I setup the dual boot so I suspect it may be related. Which makes no sense to me because I've setup dual boot systems several times before that always worked flawlessly but this is the first time I've tried to dual boot 7 with 8.1 in particular so maybe the OSs hate eachother or something. Anyway on to the problem.
So every time I try to boot into Windows 7, the following happens: OS doesn't even try to start up until I've physically turned the PC off and back on like 2-4 times. No errors or anything that I see. Then finally it will try to launch Windows startup repair and I can tell it to try to repair it, which can run for a long time. Eventually the startup repair will say something like "windows could not be repaired" upon which I reboot the PC but regardless, Windows 7 will load up perfectly that time. Works fine until I reboot again, which starts the process over. Windows 8.1 does not have this problem at all.
I've checked my event logs, I haven't noticed anything that obviously stands out to me around boot time, there's no hardware errors either which wouldn't make sense anyway because I just built this PC was last year with all brand new parts. I can't figure out what would be causing this, nor how to go about fixing it. The boot problem is the only thing obviously wrong with my system, from what I can tell it's just a severe annoyance if anything but I would really appreciate some help with figuring out how to fix it so I don't have to waste so much time trying to get my PC started up when I need to.