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Need help restoring HDD. Windows 7 won't boot
Windows 7 stopped booting and entered an infinate reboot cycle. I took the HDD out and put it into another laptop as a secondary drive but it would only display "system reserved". I have installed slax linux on a usb drive and booted off that with the hdd in the original laptop and have found my files are still intact. I have managed to copy most of the important ones off through fear that the hdd might be dying a slow death. There is loads still on it so I want to try and restore. Reinstall would be an absolute last resort. I have tried all the windows tools to get it up and running but none of them work. From what I've been reading, I'd assume this is an MBR issue? although I don't fully understand what that is. If anyone could offer any advice, I'd be extremely grateful.