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Please Help! Cannot boot to desktop in normal or any safe mode, cannot repair Windows 7

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September 17, 2014 11:35:24 PM

Yesterday my computer froze for some odd reason. Anything I moused over wouldn't highlight and I could not select anything. I did a hard shutdown. I booted in normal mode and then the same thing happened. I shutdown again. Booted in safe mode with networking and the same thing happened again. Then I tried to repair windows through a recovery disk I had made from the last reinstall and it hung at the infinite circle and did nothing. It restarted and I tried to boot it from the disk to try and repair. Now I get to the starting windows screen and it just hangs there and does nothing. The hard drive isn't making any sound and the light for the hard drive just has a steady blink. Safe mode just stops at fltmgr.sys. How can I fix windows if I cannot repair it through bios( which I reset) or the recovery disk which was made right after a fresh install? I need to save everything on this hard drive since I need the files for school, work, and military business.

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September 17, 2014 11:57:03 PM

It sounds as though you MAY have a faulty hard disk drive in the computer.

Run a 3rd party software like seatools or something from a bootable CD to test the drive. But i daresay this will be the cause of your issue.

Have you also tried a system restore off the repair CD or regular windows CD compared to a repair?
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September 18, 2014 12:55:25 AM

Artakra said:
It sounds as though you MAY have a faulty hard disk drive in the computer.

Run a 3rd party software like seatools or something from a bootable CD to test the drive. But i daresay this will be the cause of your issue.

Have you also tried a system restore off the repair CD or regular windows CD compared to a repair?


I made a recovery disk from a fresh OS install which has 3 recovery disks and an app drive disk. I tried to boot the computer from that and nothing, it just hangs.
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September 18, 2014 1:11:13 AM

Again then, i susperct your hard drive is faulty. Run a 3rd party software off bootable DVD/CD such as seatool sto confirm this is the case, but you will more than likely need to purchase a new hard drive and clone your current installation to it (assuming you're drive isn't to badly damaged)
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September 18, 2014 7:24:18 PM

Sound right, I boutght 2 1 TB hard drives from amazon today. I have the recovery disks, can I load the OS onto one hard drive using those disks? And second how can I clone the old hard drive to the second one?
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September 18, 2014 7:33:00 PM

If you clone you dont need to. Depending how badly damaged the drive is, cloning is the process of making identical copies. Meaning your windows, files, set ups, configs etc will all be Identical on the new drive.

Symmantic Ghost, Paragon, Acronis Disk Director are just some of the programs capable of cloning hard disk drives. Otherwise you will have to clean install onto the new hard drive and you MAY be lucky enough to get your data by putting it in for example an enclosure and having some patience as it tries to copy across.
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