windows 7 wont boot problems.., my cat did it.....

ok everything was working fine and i was arranging my files around on my other hard disk which had vista on it which i keep as a backup incase something goes wrong like this...

so i was in a folder which i had a backup install of vista registy.reg k so i got up and go too get something too drink and came back and my cat was on my desk and there was about 20 boxes open up which was that reg file and it said do you want too add this info i kept saying know and was hopeing my cat didn't click yes.....


so i restarted hopeing it boots and well it doesn't... it says about boot manger cant load 7 because of a device is missing im guess my raid 0 drivers sense vista was on a regular hard drive.


so i pop in my windows 7 disk and tried too do boot repair well it took about 5min attempting repair than it says cant repair and in the info says error bad driver...


so i pretty much not sure what too do i cant really do clean sense i have almost a tb of files on that 2tb disk which is 2x1tbs


i booted in vista which works and the drive is there and all my files is still there which i could copy my stuff over too my other 2x1tbs.


but is there any other way too get windows 7 back up and running? instead of going all that copying and a fresh install of windows and copy everything back..


is there a option too repair the registry back too windows 7s? or a fresh install of the registry?



what about upgrade install? does that work with out running in windows?

right now im at work but like too see what options i have for when i get home.


also im using raid 0 so not sure if upgrade install will work sense i never tried it.

thanks

 

did you try to do a chkdsk /r command?
sometimes when i get that kind of error I try that.
also if you say that in vista your hdd is accessible, maybe you should try to boot in last known good configuration under windows 7, you never know if it is going to work. if it works, do a system restore to a day earlier what happened with the silly cat (I like dogs ^^)

I ran out of ideas, I hope more people can help you

 

If you can't repair the os and make it bootable take out the hard drive and hook it up to another laptop, or make it a slave in a desktop, and you should easily be able to get your data off and then do a clean install.

 

nope didn't try the chkdsk /r command but will try that when i get home.

oh and ya i don't have system restore on i always keep it off.. kinda wish i would've kept it on would've saved me going threw this trouble..


oh i forgot too mention that it is my desktop so its easy too get too the files and copy them over and stuff but just wanted a more easy option hehe.

 

all right let us know ^^

 

I wonder why system restore during the system repair wouldn't work then?

If nothing else, you probably helped a couple people reading this thread to remember the first rule of computing--LEAVE SYSTEM RESTORE ON!

 

yep next time im leaving system restore on


right now im copying all my files over too my other hdds which is about 497gbs...

than im gonna try some things but looks like i might have too just do a fresh install but at least i didint loose my files.


pretty much vista saved me there lol lucky i left it on one of my other hdds

and gonna start putting a screen saver on with a password hehe

 

Cats...

Get a dog

 

but back too the problem i just did a clean install and it left my stuff still on the drive and put windows in a windows.old so pretty much just copying my stuff were it suppost too go before i did that i copy that stuff over too my other tbs non raid drives just incase.

 

Other than system restore you could opt to do a full image backup to a USB HDD. You then can restore from even a full hard drive failure................