Help Reinstalling Windows 7 Please


  1. jb331607
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    Windows 7 x64
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    Help Reinstalling Windows 7 Please


    Well I am running Windows 7 on a laptop that is not even a year old yet. About amonth ago I had finished up a paper, went to class and when I came back my virus scanner said it had detected and deleted a virus. The only problem was neither IE or FireFox would work, luckily though IE 64bit did work. After amonth of trying to fix my computer I feel I have only made it worse and just want to reinstall windows 7 which I thought would be an easy task from what I have read.

    When I go to make a backup disk my computer takes about 10 hours and only get about 33% of the way done so I decided to say forget that. Now when I go to reinstall windows 7 I get to the point where it says insert windows 7 reinstall disk. After I put it in I get an error, (error 0x3e7)and it says that im missing something I need. Also sometimes my computer will give me this message right away and sometimes it takes any from 1/2 hour to 1 1/2hours to give me this error but I have never been able to get to the setup screen.

    If anyone can help your help will greatly by welcomed, Thank You
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  3. whs
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    Did you try to reinstall from the recovery partition? What is the make of the PC.
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  4. jb331607
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    I have a Dell Inspiron and I tried to recover my computer from a previous time if thats the same?
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  6. whs
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    There are 2 ways to recover:

    1. A complete reinstall to factory settings which works like this on a Dell:
    http://support.dell.com/support/topi...&isLegacy=true

    2. You can go back to a previous restore point. For that, type System Restore into the Start/Search and hit enter. Then you get the wizard. If it does not work on the proposed restore point, try another one.
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  7. gregrocker
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    If System Restore won't run from Windows 7, you can use a Win7 Installation DVD or make a Recovery CD in Backup Center, boot it to run System Restore. System Restore
    System Repair Disc - Create

    You can also copy out your files using Repair Disk or Installation DVD if you are unable to drag and drop the files to DVD, external or flash stick: Copy & Paste - in Windows Recovery Console

    Next try to run Factory Recovery as Wolfgang explained. Do you have any disks supplied by Dell?

    If you need/want to find a Windows 7 installation DVD to clean reinstall, here are some tips on how to get a perfect reinstall based on hundreds done here: re-install windows 7
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