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Windows 7 Repair Disc: Can skip straight to command prompt?
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Situation:
Computer system with faulty HDD, damaged sectors, corrupted data and Windows 7 fails to start up, gets hung up.
Windows Error Recovery fails to work (Launch Startup Repair)
Non of the safe modes work, load last know configuration has no effect.
Unable to access disk through another Windows system, takes a long time to initialize the disk and ends up prompting to format the partition that it detects as RAW.
Solution:
The Windows 7 Repair Disc, boot have it analyze and attempt repairs.
Upon second boot, it gives the option to do more advanced test.
In my case I needed check disk, to have it find, mark and if possible recovery the data in those damaged sectors.
Now that the disk has been checked and the damaged sectors have been marked, windows can boot and be accessed by another windows system. I can now make copies of the data that needs to be kept.
Disk has been replaced under warranty, factory default image been installed and all data has been migrated to the new disk. A happy ending.
My problem:
The Windows Repair Disc is really troublesome to use on a HDD that’s damaged, I’ve used it several times before on a HDD with damaged sectors and it took me more than a full hour if not longer to get through the initial analyze attempt, after that I had to boot it a second time before I got to the needed tools, command prompt and check disk (chkdsk).
Is there an option to get Windows 7 Repair Disc to not do any of his analyzing and repair attempts and skip strait to the more advanced part or even better, command prompt?
Any advice or alternatives appreciated.