PC With Windows 7 Home Pemium Won't Boot Up After Upgrading

[gtrainer]

I inherited a Gateway PC with Windows 7 Home Premium on it. Initially it started up just fine. Then I started updating Windows 7 as it was not updated for a good while. Cut a long story short, Windows would not load after being updated. I suspected it caused a corruption of some kind. I also had a removed a USB drive I had installed which I wondered might have caused an issue.

I tried to resolve it with Windows 7 Recovery tools. Windows Repair just looped endlessly for hours and I got nowhere. I tried System Restore and it told me no restore existed. I burned am .iso CD of Easy Recovery Essentials (EasyRE) and booted from the CD drive and attempted to repair which at that time the result was it could not “….find any valid Windows Partitions on the computer.” Even though when I run the Windows 7 Repair it mentions my “Local Drive D:” I did double check that the hard drive was attached inside the PC. At some point along my travel to troubleshoot, when using the the command line, it mentioned I/O device error.

I’d love to try to boot Windows up again as there are some important documents and precious photos I want to keep. I'm also trying to avoid having to remove the hard drive, etc. Would love assistance on steps I might be missing here to get this machine to boot.

 

[SIW2]

The first thing I would do is backup the activation using boot media that includes dism++
SEE HERE
if you use the boot media linked below, dism++ runs from the usb so you dont need to move it elsewhere



So if you end up needing to reinstall you can put it back in.

Then you could copy off any files you need.

Next try running checkdisk from the boot media.

17514x64v30.iso

extract the above iso file to create bootable usb using View attachment Usb7ice.zip

Note: drive letters will be different from boot media. You can see what you are doing if you borrow mine linked above