Windows 7 suddenly corrupt and not starting
I have a dell studio 17 about 2.5 years old. Yesterday, booted like normal in the morning, shut it down (power off) like normal in the afternoon to return home. Went to boot it and went into windows recovery mode.
Cannot boot to safe mode.
Had a program, Farstone's restore it running and it is suppose to keep a snapshot of my computer at all times.
Windows 7 was unable to restore. Ran restoreit to the previous day. Said successful, but when rebooted, returned to the windows 7 recovery mode and would not boot normal.
tried restore it again, but apparently it wiped/reset itself or windows wiped out its drive images.
Restore it must have turned off the windows 7 recovery program because now it looks like there is nothing that is able to be restored.
I ran PC check on the hard disk and the hard disk appears to in good working order.
Is there any way to repair windows 7. While I don't specifically remember the options presented (although restoring to a previous time was there and it did not work.) I do know none of the options as presented seemed to be the right one.
I know I can wipe and reload, but would prefer to keep that for last resort.
With puppy linux and spideroak I either have my important files backed up or moved to a external drive, so i could wipe it out. But I have so many programs it will take days/weeks to return to to normal.
Any suggestions or am I hosed and just need to wipe and reload?
Thank you.
Cannot boot to safe mode.
Had a program, Farstone's restore it running and it is suppose to keep a snapshot of my computer at all times.
Windows 7 was unable to restore. Ran restoreit to the previous day. Said successful, but when rebooted, returned to the windows 7 recovery mode and would not boot normal.
tried restore it again, but apparently it wiped/reset itself or windows wiped out its drive images.
Restore it must have turned off the windows 7 recovery program because now it looks like there is nothing that is able to be restored.
I ran PC check on the hard disk and the hard disk appears to in good working order.
Is there any way to repair windows 7. While I don't specifically remember the options presented (although restoring to a previous time was there and it did not work.) I do know none of the options as presented seemed to be the right one.
I know I can wipe and reload, but would prefer to keep that for last resort.
With puppy linux and spideroak I either have my important files backed up or moved to a external drive, so i could wipe it out. But I have so many programs it will take days/weeks to return to to normal.
Any suggestions or am I hosed and just need to wipe and reload?
Thank you.
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Thank you all for your feed back. Unfortunately I did not make a bootable repair disk and I tried most of the other options. While the drive did not fail the testing, I don't feel like I can trust it as the primary drive with this sudden unrecoverable corruption.
So it looks like a new drive and a clean install. No data is lost because of backups. But lesson learned. Create a bootable disk and make a full disk image regularly.
Thanks again.
So it looks like a new drive and a clean install. No data is lost because of backups. But lesson learned. Create a bootable disk and make a full disk image regularly.
Thanks again.
You can try to repair the windows from the DVD which comes with it, if you already did that, pls try one more time for startup repair or full repair.