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7 HP x64 - Startup Repair Loop, NoRootCause - two Win7versions on PC
Good evening,
since this afternoon and without any obvious reason, my PC has the "startup Repair Loop" problem, that is well described in many forums, as i learned.
I spent 4 hours now trying out the recommendations given in this forum (thread on "
7 HP x64 - Startup Repair Loop, NoRootCause") and others, that is, all options from the repair manager, chkdsk, the "Bootrec-manouevres", correcting the files manually as, for example, eplained in "https://www.deskdecode.com/startup-repair-cannot-repair-this-computer-automatically/"
etc.
Needless to say that nothing worked.
Here is the peculiarity: I have an older, still running version of Win7 on another drive on the same computer.
So I can access all the windows files of the drive that I used for booting and where the currently damaged version is installed at. Including the folder windows32/config, that is used in one of the ways to try to repair the thing.
So I could relatively easily save all personal files and install a new version over again. The thing is that I have a lot of programms installed and things personalized in the Win7 version that is not booting.
Now here comes my question: Is it of any advantage that I can access all files of the not-booting windows-version from the older windows version and can I do any repair by that? And how? Do you give me a chance? Or do I have do re-install anyway?
Thanks a lot for any helpful comment!!