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Win7 won't boot. Can I re-install and keep my user settings?
I have two questions:
My Windows 7 won't boot! I have Dell with Windows 7 pre-installed.
During boot, it suddenly has begun to fail with a blue screen, which says something about a "vital execution thread has suddenly stopped", or something like that.
Then Windows runs System Restore, which concludes by saying it cannot help me!
It says:
"Unknown bugcheck.
bugcheck f4
0x3
0xfffffa8005943b10
0xfffffa8005943df0
0xfffff800033c9d30"
What does that mean?
Since it said it couldn't recover, I wanted to re-install Windows 7 over the old one, and keep all my settings, installations, etc. But reading a couple of articles on the internet, they all seem to say that one can only do that, if one can get Windows to boot! That's a catch-22!
I find it completely incredible that there wouldn't be the option of re-installing on top of the former installation, keeping all user-settings, etc., and just replacing any system files that might have been damaged.
Is that really the case?
I am at my wits end, trying to find out what I should do.
Isak