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I have just pulled the drive and plugged in into my machine via USB enclosure. All the data is there. Going to reinstall and format. <br />

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I have just pulled the drive and plugged in into my machine via USB enclosure. All the data is there. Going to reinstall and format.


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Recently I did an upgrade Vista to Win7 64bit. The upgrade went fine and the machine was working without any issues for about a week. Then it would not boot past POST. <br />
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I have run system restore a few times. Ran CHDSK /F and replaced the MBR. After all the tests the Recovery tool said it cannot repair this due to Corrupt Volume. <br />
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My Question is &nbsp;- can I just reinstall windows w/o reformatting - and not lose any data? Is there anything I can do to repair the corrupt volume without reformatting? <br />
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Thanks SJMP
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Recently I did an upgrade Vista to Win7 64bit. The upgrade went fine and the machine was working without any issues for about a week. Then it would not boot past POST. 

I have run system restore a few times. Ran CHDSK /F and replaced the MBR. After all the tests the Recovery tool said it cannot repair this due to Corrupt Volume. 

My Question is  - can I just reinstall windows w/o reformatting - and not lose any data? Is there anything I can do to repair the corrupt volume without reformatting? 

Thanks SJMP

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