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Win 7 cannot start, restore or repair possible damage to MBR
Hi,
I am running win 7 x64, I did create a recovery disk in 64 bit, and my laptop also came with a 32 bit recovery Disc.
Yesterday I found out I was infected with a tidserve virus, I used a removal tool from Symantec which seemed to fix the issue, before restarting I also removed some other anti virus software I had installed to try to remove the virus.
After rebooting, my laptop went straight to start windows normally or run repair, it cannot repair.
I have tried using the repair on the disk that will not work or finds no problems.
system restore will also not work.
I have just tried /scannow from command prompt and it tells me it cannot find any intgrity violations however I think I remeber the tool from symantec telling me that the file 'MBR' was infected and it fixed that.
I believe this is the source of my inability to now start up windows.
any help or advise is appreciated.
I am able to back up all my files using command prompt to external HDD but of course if this could be fixed without a complete reinstallation that would be great.
Many Thanks