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Win7 keeps restarting, startup repair and system restore fails
Hello everyone,
I am not sure which category this belongs to as it broaches many areas, but I felt this was the closest (other than general)
In short my computer refuses to start win 7, it tries to repair it, but fails. I have tried system restore point and restore to previous known working state but neither works. The computer will start in safe mode though.
Some background:
This started when my AVG virus software started telling me it could not update so I uninstalled it (or rather tried to update it by downloading a new version of it and trying to install it over the old, but this had some problems so I uninstalled it). I rebooted after the uninstall and the cycle above started.
At this point time I tried restoring the system to the point before I tried the "install new version over the old" and the restore was successful but the problem persisted. After this though, no restore point will work anymore, I just get
"unspecified error occurred during system restore 0x8000ffff"
Apparently the first restore really did work as when I started in safe mode, the AVG was there and I uninstalled it hoping it would help, but no.
I've tried running the Repair Computer option from win7 disk, but it wont work. I can not even try to reinstall win7 at the moment because I get this when trying to select any partition:
windows 7 windows cannot be installed to this disk the selected disk has an mbr partition table gpt
I know this is related to the fact that I have an UEFI motherboard, so I thought that there was something wrong with the booting sequence, but the fact I can get to safe mode sort of confuses me (EUFI is new to me). Anyhow the way I understand it, to reinstall install on UEFI I need to delete all partitions on a disk and I'm looking for other options first (or rather all boot fixes caution about copying HD data first, so for me the same thing).
Now the problem in not really that I can not find helpful things on google, but rather the fact that I can find too many and I'm not sure in which direction I should go, so I was hoping if someone more experienced than me could point me to the right direction.
Thanks for any help.
Kind regards,
Arch