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Yeah I need another computer for that. If I had another one, I would just take the drive out of here and slave it to a desktop to pull the information off then let setup restore the system.
Yeah I need another computer for that. If I had another one, I would just take the drive out of here and slave it to a desktop to pull the information off then let setup restore the system.
You can copy files to an external disk by doing Copy & Paste - in Windows Recovery Console. That way you can save important documents
Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot step 9. Now you know if all files are still there.
You don't know yet:
I need that info... otherwise I can't help you
- partitions are still on disk?
- files are still in the partition?
- correct partition is active?
System Repair Disc - Create do it on a working win7 x64 (64bits) machine. No neigbors/friends with such a machine?
No one near me with windows 7. A friend told me we might be able to start Linux on it to pull the information off then allow setup to return the HDD to factory status. I am going to hate having to do that. I think at this point I am going to need to find a desktop running at least xp to pull the files I need off of it. I know everything is still there. Partition 1 is intact as I never allowed setup to run. Partition 2 has Microsoft office click to run and partition 3 has the restore software and OS in it. I have, and used several partition program and can do what I need to just need to find another computer I guess.
If you're so sure all is still there.....don't do a factory restore!
Do you have any cd/dvd in house to do the following?
It can be a linux bootable CD/DVD or some partition manager cd/dvd. Prove all partitions are still there. Prove files are still there.
- show partitions on disk
What partition is marked ACTIVE? "recovery", "system reserved", or win7 partition itself?
I will try using Linux as suggested my a friend to see what I can do. I still wonder if I can input a command string into edit boot options to tell boot manager to simply run windows normally. It did switch to running setup when I typed setup. It should be just as easy to switch it back. Or I am just dreaming. I thank you for your help. I won't do a restore unless I get the info off of it with the Linux boot cd or someone here can somehow come up with the command line to tell boot manager to run normally
Along the top highlighted says Edit Boot Options then below says Edit Windows boot options for: windows set up
Below that says Path: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
Then [ /MININT /REDIRECT RDIMAGEOFFSET=8192 RDIMAGELENGTH=3161088 RDPATH= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\sources\boot.wim
Any other menu I can get into has the windows setup header. Not windows