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Thanks, Brink. I caught that in your "warning" section, thus the query.
The system crashed during a routine back-up and won't boot. It starts to boot, fails, then runs a blue dump screen (which basically says W failed to load). I can get into the set-up and boot options, but none will do anything other than put me back into the same dump/recovery screens (I'm assuming the repair option won't work because I installed W7 from an upgrade disk). The good news is the hard drive appears ok as I was able to remove it and back up my files, but I'm really hoping there's a way to avoid a complete reinstallation (which will take 20+ hours). Given everything was running fine before and the disk seems to be ok, I'm assuming only one (or a small handful) of files somehow got corrupted. Thus if there was a way to identify the problem files and if they were generic enough to copy from my other machine, that would save a lot of pain. Is there any such tool or am I dreaming? If I can find a W7 boot disk could I then run a repair install on the hard drive's W7?
Last edited by aPe; 14 Jun 2013 at 12:25. Reason: correction