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Reinstalling Windows7 on pc which isn't booting with Bitlocked drives
My laptop suddenly crashed yesterday and when I restarted it, it says "windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt" error 0xc000009 . I tried to do System Repair using Windows 7 CD but since 2 of my drives (not the C system drive but E & F drives that I had previously partitioned), it asked me for the bitlocker key. Unfortunately, I lost the flash drive I had my keys saved on. So I was thinking of fully re-uninstalling Windows if that is possible. But I want to make sure that the 2 drives E & F will be normally usable by unlocking those drives using the password since I have 2 years of my works there and I have no back up of those files. So, if I re-installed Windows, do I have to take the risk of having to format those 2 drives afterwards? I don't even know how I got this error in the first place. I hadn't messed with any files on the C drive at all.
Nervously waiting for help.