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Windows 7, corrupt? Got myself into a mess, help!
Here's what happened. A user tried hibernating the machine (no idea why) and subsequently it got stuck in a boot loop where the machine wouldn't progress past the bios logo and the hit X to enter setup. I literally couldn't even hold down F8 before it would reboot and the loop would start again.
So I used the inbuilt system utilities to run a HDD diagnostic, and after 2 hours of that it checked out fine.
I grabbed hirens boot USB, loaded into that and changed the windows folder to windowsX. Rebooted, Lo and behold, the boot progressed this time to windows recovery. I let the recovery do its auto repair and I was back in windows.
Suprisingly, it wasn't smart enough to name windowsX to back to windows. It just created another windows folder with some rubbish in it.
So I went back into my boot USB. Changed it back manually to windows and rebooted. Unfortunately, windows is still confused and I get a boot menu now with two Windows 7 (recovered) options. One is from a previous install, which I don't use. Although it's hard to distingish which is which.
But anyway, when it boots I now get put on to a temporary profile. Any idea how I can get out of this mess, please?
Thanks.