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Geek Culture / need help with booting windows 7

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JZ28
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Posted: 24th Jan 2010 03:32 Edited at: 25th Aug 2013 01:23
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 24th Jan 2010 11:27
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I don't know for sure but XP had a repair option whereby it'd nuke the Windows directory and replace it with a fresh install leaving everything outside of the Windows directory as it was.

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charger bandit
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Try booting into safemode,might go inside Windows,then get rid of the drivers and reboot normally.

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Indicium
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I would guess you've corrupted the system. NEVER turn a computer off when it's shutting down after an update or driver installation etc.

I would go with Charger bandit and try booting in safe mode, if that works, see if you can copy files to an external memory unit, although I'm not sure how limited you are concerning file management whilst in safe mode.

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Benjamin
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If all else fails run a LiveCD (I'd recommend Ubuntu) and backup your files, then reinstall the OS.
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