Seagate's backup utility works, booted from a cd. Ran a full backup of the crashed disk. A couple dozen files got corrupted somewhere in the process, but everything else is good. Once upon a time, I seem to remember you could rerun SP3 to fix a lot of problems.
Have SP3 on a disk, but it's not bootable. Not sure how to mount the disk after booting from the CD, though. I've run backups with it before, too. There's a file utility that comes with Bart-PE and it can't open the drive, either.
So, I have no idea what's going on, really. Messed up boot sector? Partition table can't be too messed up, because the recovery partition is fine. Even if I had an original Setup disk, that'd be so old I don't know if it would be that much help.
Would it even recognize the current updated system? Would that System file work with the rest of the OS? Even if it did, I'd still have to run SP3 and then updates. I'm kind of hoping to at least start with SP3. Ideally, I want a method to boot the machine from the dvd drive and either repair my current version or reload the bare bones operating system without disrupting the registry, drivers or network settings too much.
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Joined Dec 11, Messages It will help you to install and dualboot Linux and multiple copies of Windows. Also, using Partition Manager you can copy, move, and resize disk partitions. Move and resize your partitions in one step. Transparent extended partition resizing no more confusion with extended partitions. Command line parameters for accessing advanced options read-only operation etc. Partition Resizer is a small DOS executable, which requires no installation, and can perform, all these tasks in a short while, giving you the opportunity to re-arrange your partitions safely, quickly and fuss-free.
Advanced Boot Manager - select active partition at the boot time, boot from the second hard drive. Create up to 31 primary partitions on a single hard drive. Drag the knob until you have a desired amount of disk space to install Windows XP, then release it.
After Windows XP installs successfully, you will not be able to boot into Windows 7. This is where the recovery disc for Windows 7 comes in. Put the Windows 7 Recovery disc installation disc into the disc drive, and then start the computer. Select a language, a time, a currency, and a keyboard or another input method, and then click Next.
After you have repaired your Windows 7 installation and try to boot it, you will notice that Windows 7 does not boot. You will now be able to boot into Windows 7 again. EasyBCD by NeoSmart Technologies would be your answer, it provides a graphical front end to the BCDEdit Command line that makes it easy for you to define start-up settings and edit boot entries on the new Windowsboot manager.
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