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I did a boot from W7 Ulitimate 64 bit install media a full new, clean, format disk, install and it fixed my problem. if you do this you will not have a windows.old dir as it wipes everything.
I use Microsoft Security Essentials - it appears as good as most and free and seems to have a small system/perfromance footprint
If your data is on that disk you need a backup or you will lose it.I used easy transfer to transfer a lot of my win7 settings and stuff to another diak - then transferred them back after the install.
I currently have 16 restore points to choose from
I have 3 disks in my PC.
disk 1 - W7 partition and data backup partition
disk 2 data partition
disk 3 2nd backup
external usb 1 TB for fianl backup - normally kept at my mums house
I have too many photos and too much music to risk losing them
Sorry but I'm on UK time here, so I'm a bit out of phase with you all....
Okay I typed backup now wat do I click..nothing comes up saying "create system image".
Now lets do this in steps k...once I go to backup and "create a system image" its just a file I can drag and drop to my 8gb USB stick to save it for example right? What does this system image do? Im guessing it allows you to "restore" your computer to the state you created it in. So you don't have to reformat your whole hard drive again and install everything, correct?
Now wat is the difference between that and creating the system repair cd?
Yes, the backup image makes it unnecessary to ever reinstall the OS again, just reimage the HD or a replacement from the image.
You use the Repair CD or Win7 DVD to do this, selecting "Recover Using an Image" from the Tools list (Startup Repair, Command Line, System Restore, etc.) which will autodetect the image stored in the root of an external drive, or in a primary partition on an internal HD and reimage from boot mode.