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Boot loop, unable to boot up after switching harddrive.
So I recently got some laptop parts to upgrade my laptop with from my friend who had the same model. Everything was working until I switched the harddrive (Big mistake). I thought since the model of laptops was the same, it could just be swapped in, but I was wrong and now I can't completely bootup my laptop with either drives. (I'm currently trying my fixes on my original drive)
On a restart after it downloaded some drivers, the device scanned the harddrive for consistency which deleted a few things. Since then it is mostly unable to boot (there have been a few times that it booted up but they are few and eventually they shut itself back down) and throws me in a bootloop even after I switched the original harddrive back in. I can boot it up successfully into safemode and use my windows recovery disc to boot up my laptop but neither of those are permanent fixes.
I've tried using the built in startup repair multiple times but it says it is unable to fix the problem. Looking at the logs of the scan, it says the root of the problem is a corrupt system volume disk.
I've also tried using system restore to earlier time but no luck. I've tried last known good configuration but didn't work.
I've tried performing a chkdsk function which was not able to fix the problem.
I've tried using bootrec. one of the functions showed that I had 0 windows installed. looking up and following the /rebuildbcd function from the microsoft site I fixed that problem so that it shows 1 windows install, but the boot problem persists.
I've tried using the sfc/scannow function but there were some files that were not able to repaired and the boot issue is still here.
Now I'm pretty much out of ideas. I would preform a re installation of windows 7 but I don't own a disc and my product key doesn't allow me to get the iso since its a preinstalled version on my laptop.