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Win 7 startup problem

Hi experts,

I have a 32bit Win 7 and I interupted the startup process by powering down accidentally. Now it goes into a loop of detecting and repairing a startup problem. It never fixes the issue, even after 6 attempts, and I have now choosen to use a restore point from a few days prior.

Even after restoring to the restore point it still won't boot up. It now just arrives at a blinking cursor. Help!

Thanks,

HNM

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Booting from the CD didn't work. It went through the same 'startup repair' stuff and concluded with a message saying that it could not be repaired. that really sucks. So I think I'm going to try the other suggestions above and worst case backup using a bootable USB drive and then re-install the OS.

I'll update soon.

thanks,

HNM

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I think the hard drive is toast. I'm going to use a util to flag bad sectors if possible or just replace it. I forgot to mention that my wife had the laptop in her suit case that she asked me to lift... it wasn't closed and the laptop dropped on the hardwood floor. So I turned it on and it started booting so I said fine and turned it off. i assumed the boot errors were from my interupted startup. But it's starting to look like there is a more serious problem. Even a formated clean install is repeating the same startup errors.

Thanks for the help!