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Windows 7 won't start | startup repair not fixing it
Hello everyone!
As the title says, windows 7 won't start and startup repair is not fixing it.
Let me give you the scenario:
My laptop was working fine, I installed macrium reflect and performed a full clone - no issues. I shutdown my laptop, took the battery off, took the laptop apart, and replaced my harddrive with a new one. I tried to boot up my backup drive that I just cloned to and it failed to boot.
I did some troubleshooting with my backup drive and then decided to buy a SATA 2.5" to USB adapter and hooked my original drive up.
Tried to boot to my original drive and it failed to start too. It gets to the windows logo and then a blue screen flashes and it restarts itself.
I ran startup repair: system files integrity check and repair error
Startup repair finds my Windows 7 Home Premium OS
Bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot are successful
I tried to do a system restore to before macrium reflect was installed and it fails.
I tried to do a system restore from a week ago and it failed too.
I tried starting in safe mode with last known config and it fails.
I tried starting in safe mode and it gets to the black screen where it starts loading .dll's (drivers?) and gets through about 10-15 of them and it restarts
I am able to access all the files like it is a backup drive. I ran chkdsk last night and am currently running a defrag.
However, I am running out of ideas and am lost of what is wrong. It was working before I took it out of the laptop and now I can't even do a system restore.