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Freezing and Boot Issues
Hi All,
A bit of background. My pc is dual boot with windows 7 being the boot master, with windows 10 as selectable.
Anyway, windows 7 failed to boot seemingly random, coming up with the press ctrl alt del to reboot. Rebooting brought the same screen up.
Then after powering down (then turning off the plug), and back up it booted to the desktop, all be it slowly, but after a few hours of use the different applications froze, with explorer and all other programs stopped, but the mouse moves.
So i started to boot to windows 10. I made 10 the boot master but it still sometimes has the same booting issue. Sometimes the apps freeze but windows 10 quickly resumes. After 3 different HDD testers found no bad sectors or issues. I tried SFC/CHK-DSK using a windows 7 recovery disc but it couldnt find the file from the disc or the windows 7 HDD. Also tried reseting the MBR and all the other boot settinhs but similar to the SFC it couldnt find the files to do so.
So I read that you could reset then by cloning the partition onto another HDD and using the original as a slave. So I downloaded some clone software but when i loaded the program, it and all the other apps (including explorer) froze again the mouse was moving. When the programs unfroze (after about 5 minutes) the windows 7 HDD had vanished from the program and from the "My PC" section.
Any idea what to do now to either diagnose or repair tue issue?
Thabks in advance