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fix crashed windows 7 install ?

R

railer

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Looks like I corrupted the registry on my win 7 install, probably by swapping it out with another drive while in sleep mode.
I am no longer able to successfully boot win 7.
I had system restore turned off, and have no good registry backups available. The registry repair tool is unable to fix the problem.

I do have access to other working win 7 hard drives that work with my laptop, and I am able to access the HD in question, via USB through one of these alternate win 7 HD's.

Would i be able to simply copy the win 7 registry from a good HD to the corrupted HD, since I'd be using them in the same laptop, and everything would be exactly the same except the HD itself?

is there a better way to fix this? Should I try to re-install win 7 on top of the corrupt win 7 install? There are a couple of installed applications on the corrupt drive that I really want to have access to, and am trying not to screw them up.

Thanks for any help.
 
Whatever..umm..here's what you do:
If your install has the "startup repair" option..use that.
If not use your Windows disk.
Let it start trying to repair then cancel..
Then fanagle bringing up a Dos prompt from there.
and type"
"Bootrec.exe /fixboot" hit enter
"Bootrec.exe /fixmbr" enter
"Bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd" enter

Reboot and hope 😀

You could also download Easybcd: http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
but by the time you install it..you could be done.
 
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schmuckley said:
Whatever..umm..here's what you do:
If your install has the "startup repair" option..use that.
If not use your Windows disk.
Let it start trying to repair then cancel..
Then fanagle bringing up a Dos prompt from there.
and type"
"Bootrec.exe /fixboot" hit enter
"Bootrec.exe /fixmbr" enter
"Bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd" enter

Reboot and hope 😀

You could also download Easybcd: http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
but by the time you install it..you could be done.
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Thanks man. I'll give that a shot. Why wouldn't just copying my reg files work? I know that it hasn't worked to this point, but I don't know why.
 
A repair install is likely the only way, if the bootrec commands don't work. It won't just be a corrupted registry hive, it'll be corrupted files as well. Pulling an HD out during suspend will just wreck you.
 
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