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[Solved]Windows 7 corrupted after installing backup

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jmk909er:
Thanks Boggin I have some new information to share about this. I have been asking my daughter to find the original discs that she made the backups from (a few months ago) and she found then and brought them to the house. I said originally that she backed up to 3 CD's and this is incorrect, it took 12 CD's! And she also made a repair disc at the time.

Based on this new information how do you think I should proceed?
Run the repair disc?
Do a factory restore with whats on the laptop already?
Try to install all 12 discs again?

Boggin:
I would go with the 12 disks, but anything added after that back up was done, which I assume was a system image, then that will be lost.

So what disks did you use originally ?

jmk909er:
The 12 cd's that I have is the backup my daughter made before changing the hard drive. The hard drive was on its way out when she made the backups so I don't know the integrity of the discs. Is it possible that when she reinstalled the discs that the original back up partition is in tact and maybe I should try doing a factory reset???

If I try and reinstall the discs what is the procedure? Do I need to make it boot from cd?

Boggin:
Go Start - Control Panel - Back up your computer - Restore system settings on your computer - Advanced recovery methods and then click Use system image you created earlier then follow the prompts from there.

You may be prompted to stick the last disk in, but Windows will guide you from there.

jmk909er:
Thanks Boggin, I will do it. I am leaving for church in a few minutes and won't be able to trying probably until this evening but I will get back to you. Thanks for all your amazing help!  :wink:

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