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I fell on my computer and now I get a BSOD when Windows is booting
I'm disabled and I'm unsteady on my feet, but I had to plug a usb cord into the back of my computer. Unfortunately, I lost my balance and fell on top of the computer. It didn't tip over, but I knocked it to the side about 6" and possibly flexed the case (and motherboard). When I looked at the screen, I saw the BSOD. When I restarted, it began to load Windows. The four pieces of the Windows logo swirled and almost came together, but no, the BSOD popped up before the logo coalesced.
I had just swapped out the SSD, and I copied the partition from the old drive to the new. So they were almost identical. I replaced the new drive with the old and tried booting from the old drive. Exact same result -- BSOD on Windows startup. So it couldn't have been something I loaded on the old drive before copying it to the new drive, or else the new one wouldn't have booted when I put it in.
I tried a safe mode with command line -- same result. I watched the drivers load and delete the last driver loaded -- same result. I tried to repair the Windows installation, and tried a further repair after submitting the results. No dice. This is the info I got:
All error codes were 0x0.
Signature 1 -- 0.0.0.0
Signature 2 -- 6.1.7600.16385
Signature 3 -- unknown
Signature 4 -- 21200084
Signature 5 -- autofailover
Signature 6 -- 4
Signature 7 -- BadPatch
I took the new drive out as is, connected the old drive, and reinstalled Windows. All is working well so far, but I have one big problem, in addition to the hassle of reinstalling all my apps and reconfiguring the settings: I've forgotten the password to an email account, and the only place it's recorded is in my browser.
Please help!
Thanks.