Repairing W7 laptop HDD connected to my W7 PC


  1. Posts : 100
    Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
       #1

    Repairing W7 laptop HDD connected to my W7 PC


    I am trying to help a friend who's laptop wont boot.
    Ive tried everything but to no avail. Couldnt rollback to an earlier configuration and using a repair disk didnt help as the laptop saw Windows as working fine. It indicated that there was nothing to repair. My friend (a great home beer brewer, hence the help) had many nasty intrusions and the laptop wouldnt boot. After cleaning the HDD of many maleware and PUP's it still wouldnt boot.

    So I have removed his HDD and have it plugged into my W7 machine.

    Unfortunately his laptop didnt come with a W7 installation CD, the OS came pre-installed.
    Can anybody point out how to troubleshoot his W7 64 bit Premium OS while attached to my PC?
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  2. Posts : 100
    Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #2

    I ran sfc /scannow /offbootdir=f:\ /offwindir=f:\windows
    and it indicated that "windows resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them"

    Im guessing thats pretty much the end of the road, probably the MBR is corrupt?
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  3. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #3

    Hi
    You can get installation media easily with this,
    https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...-download-tool
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  4. Posts : 708
    Windows 7 x64
       #4

    rocks911 said:
    I am trying to help a friend who's laptop wont boot.
    Ive tried everything but to no avail. Couldnt rollback to an earlier configuration and using a repair disk didnt help as the laptop saw Windows as working fine. It indicated that there was nothing to repair. My friend (a great home beer brewer, hence the help) had many nasty intrusions and the laptop wouldnt boot. After cleaning the HDD of many maleware and PUP's it still wouldnt boot.

    So I have removed his HDD and have it plugged into my W7 machine.

    Unfortunately his laptop didnt come with a W7 installation CD, the OS came pre-installed.
    Can anybody point out how to troubleshoot his W7 64 bit Premium OS while attached to my PC?

    When you connect his HDD to yours, have you first to scan for virus/malware.
    That is to update your protection software first.
    If there are some virus, malware, etc; you may get affected too.

    Also, ensure no networking connection when you are connected to HDD.
    This is to prevent active virus/malware to start.
    After all, you are doing checking his HDD, so no need to have internet active.

    Finally, do a proper scan on yours before connecting back to internet.
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  5. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #5

    Just my two cents worth if the machine came pre installed it should have a factory restore partition mind you it will lose all your data if used.
    See this HP PCs - Performing an HP system recovery (Windows 7) | HP® Customer Support
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