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Yes, i can boot, the screen is stuck at the Windows Logo with "Starting Windows" quote.
Sequence : I boot, then windows logo loads (rotating colors etc.) then hangs but distortion lines move on top of screen, then i press Ctrl-Alt-Del and after that i can hear the login sound of Windows and have full keyboard access to do anything i want.....
...without seeing anything....
My installation USB Media is UEFI, as for the NVme driver, as far as i remember i used the "Load Driver" option while selecting partitions to see the NVme drive.
I do not want to do a repair, i would like to try a System Restore to a rrestore point that takes me 4-5 days ago, that i did not have this problem.
I have used the application Shadow Explorer to access my restore points and i see that i have several ones before the day of the incident. Maybe restoring to one of them saves my system.
My question is if the Windows 8 UEFI installation media can be used to restore my Win 7 system to a saved restore point.
According to this guy here, it can be done :
The other option i thought of was to do a repair install from inside Windows....but with pressing keys blind...That way, a repair install keeps my programs, files and settings but refreshes my system.![]()
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I have a UEFI install...Same problem, My Win Rescue disk could not be read by EUFI boot (but the disk contains a UFI file).
SCENARIO: Changed my Virtual Memory Partition location, restarted (while at the same time plugging in an external SATA Drive), then rebooted into.. NOTHING!
Windows recovery CD disc I made to recover a System backup image FAILS to run when choosing load disk in UEFI.
Tried the Win 7 install disk restore in UEFI and that was totaly useless.
After 2 days of attempts in DOS COMMANDS programming and research I gave up and was about to install the new Win 8 Dev disc to a new OS from scratch... then I was SAVED! In Win 8 Dev disc loadup I chose Repair and chose Restore Win 7 and it auto restored my Win 7 OS. It could not have been fully restored from my hardisk System backup image, as the restore process only took about 30 sec and my files were current. Must have just restored the EFI system partition (ESP) boot records.
Obviously Win 7 Install Disc is not setup very well for UEFI services. Please fix. Good to see Win 8 is more optimised for UEFI.
So My first Impression of a Win 8 experience is... WOW!!
SOLUTION... Win 8 Dev disc in UEFI... choose Repair > Win 7
After my system boots (with just showing the stuck logo on screen), i will plug my installation USB and press the correct key sequence to initiate the repair install (i believe this is done with the ''Upgrade'' option.
I will give feedback, if you have any other thoughts, i would like to hear.