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ChrisLewis8
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Hi,
I think I have a disk failure on a critical boot file on my win7 NTFS partition. It seem there are no recovery options. I know you don't support Win7 anymore, but I thought I would ask anyway.
This is a 2007 Lenovo T60 laptop. I bought it from a refurbisher in 2013. They had upped the ram to 4GB, and loaded Win7 home for refurbishers over the old XP partition. Back in 2013 I reduced the size of the NTFS partition (500gb to 150GB) so I could run other OSs too. It has worked great since. Note the HDD is 500GB and as old as ?? the machine probably?
Recently I was gifted a new 500GB SSD to swap. How fab to extend the life of an already old laptop? The cloning seems to have worked, all the paritions and files have moved over. Booting from it does not yet, but that it not why I am posting. I am engaged with the Lenovo and the Samsung community about that. I am still using the mechincal HDD.
What has happened now is that Win7 now goes to BSOD everytime I boot (from the HDD), at the stage where the little coloured dots are animating the windows logo. This means the boot loader works, the MBR is ok, and some of the boot partition is ok. Further I can boot into the other OSs no problem.
Safe mode stops and gives a failed recovery warning, 'Startup Repair' option does not seem to be listed anywhere. I just cannot even get into windows so I cannot udo changes with system restore. I never imaged the disk - my experience is from the time when you just wipe everything and reinstall every 6-8 months to keep everything smooth, you would never have bothered imaging. Because it had Win7 installed by the refurbisher I do not have the Win7 disk.
The file currption (I think it is that everything else works from the disk) is specific to core Win7 files. It could have been caused by me swapping the HDD in and out of the laptop in attempts to make the SSD work. But if that was so then The whole disk would be inaccessible becaue I would have damage the micro electronics. This is a single point fail on a file (a crucial one) so I think it is more likely to be a disc surface failure, given the disk is ???old. I almost made it past this disc failure by having the SSD ready and beginning migration.
The fix:
1. I could just get the SSD to work. I have been using samsung and third party software and lots of bios magic, to no effect. As above I am going through the Lenovo and Samsung communities. There does not seem to be a reason why this SSD should not workin this laptop.
2. Is there a way of getting a system rescue disk, to restore the install on a different (new?) partition on the same HDD? There is plenty of space for a new partition, and I could point the bootloader to it. Would you be able to help me with a rescue disk for Win7?
Many thanks
Chris
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I think I have a disk failure on a critical boot file on my win7 NTFS partition. It seem there are no recovery options. I know you don't support Win7 anymore, but I thought I would ask anyway.
This is a 2007 Lenovo T60 laptop. I bought it from a refurbisher in 2013. They had upped the ram to 4GB, and loaded Win7 home for refurbishers over the old XP partition. Back in 2013 I reduced the size of the NTFS partition (500gb to 150GB) so I could run other OSs too. It has worked great since. Note the HDD is 500GB and as old as ?? the machine probably?
Recently I was gifted a new 500GB SSD to swap. How fab to extend the life of an already old laptop? The cloning seems to have worked, all the paritions and files have moved over. Booting from it does not yet, but that it not why I am posting. I am engaged with the Lenovo and the Samsung community about that. I am still using the mechincal HDD.
What has happened now is that Win7 now goes to BSOD everytime I boot (from the HDD), at the stage where the little coloured dots are animating the windows logo. This means the boot loader works, the MBR is ok, and some of the boot partition is ok. Further I can boot into the other OSs no problem.
Safe mode stops and gives a failed recovery warning, 'Startup Repair' option does not seem to be listed anywhere. I just cannot even get into windows so I cannot udo changes with system restore. I never imaged the disk - my experience is from the time when you just wipe everything and reinstall every 6-8 months to keep everything smooth, you would never have bothered imaging. Because it had Win7 installed by the refurbisher I do not have the Win7 disk.
The file currption (I think it is that everything else works from the disk) is specific to core Win7 files. It could have been caused by me swapping the HDD in and out of the laptop in attempts to make the SSD work. But if that was so then The whole disk would be inaccessible becaue I would have damage the micro electronics. This is a single point fail on a file (a crucial one) so I think it is more likely to be a disc surface failure, given the disk is ???old. I almost made it past this disc failure by having the SSD ready and beginning migration.
The fix:
1. I could just get the SSD to work. I have been using samsung and third party software and lots of bios magic, to no effect. As above I am going through the Lenovo and Samsung communities. There does not seem to be a reason why this SSD should not workin this laptop.
2. Is there a way of getting a system rescue disk, to restore the install on a different (new?) partition on the same HDD? There is plenty of space for a new partition, and I could point the bootloader to it. Would you be able to help me with a rescue disk for Win7?
Many thanks
Chris
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