Timeline for Repairing Windows installation that can't boot
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| Mar 31 at 19:02 | comment | added | Flyview | I set the SATA configuration in the BIOS to AHCI but still was not able to repair the Windows install. I installed Windows again and to my surprise it didn't format the drive, but put the old windows and program files in a "Windows.old" folder. Now that I have a booting Windows is there any way to recover the Windows.old so I don't have to reinstall the programs? | |
| Feb 10 at 2:39 | vote | accept | Flyview | ||
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| Feb 10 at 2:38 | vote | accept | Flyview | ||
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| Feb 10 at 2:37 | history | bounty ended | Flyview | ||
| Feb 9 at 7:25 | comment | added | Flyview | I think this is most likely what is going on. I have updated my question to make it clearer. "If you can see the data in C: which should have the Windows Folders and D: which may have additional files and folders that you may have created or added...Can you please confirm this?". Yes, that is correct. Could have booting into Windows with the BIOS incorrectly set to RAID have broken the Windows installation or the integrity of other files? | |
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| S Feb 3 at 22:11 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Feb 3 at 18:26 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Feb 3 at 18:26 | history | answered | Repaird | CC BY-SA 4.0 |