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Windows 7 Ult 64 bit trapped by BSD and can not get out.
Boggin:
Thank you but I can afford it myself - it's just that I'm averse to buying something when I can get a free version that does the same.
There is the exception with Windows Repair, but generally I'm a tight git :D
I think that when the time comes I'll probably opt for Macrium Reflect and if I'm in a generous mood and I like it, I may just splash out and get the pro version :)
FreeCat:
Howdy Boggin. Well I did what you said booted up from CD, found system on E: drive and three runs of scannow with the offboot and windows parameters gave: "There are errors but could not fix them."
So, Now I have to repair using the cd. I am confused about how to do that.
Boggin:
I'll go through it again.
Boot up the machine, go Start - click on Computer and insert the disk.
Double click on the DVD drive when you see it has come up and that should start the process.
There will be some user input such as accepting the end user licence agreement (EULA) but it will just get on with it.
At some point you will be prompted to enter your product key to activate it.
While this won't affect your personal stuff or installed programs, it will produce a Windows.old folder which will be of a few GBs in size.
You will need to reinstall all of Windows updates but you can let it do this over night, provided you change your update settings to Let me choose so that you can control when you want them to download.
When you are sure everything is as it should be, go Start - type disk cleanup - right click on Disk Cleanup and select Run as administrator
When it has completed, scroll through the box to check the box for Windows.old and that will get rid of that and then you can do a defrag when that is done.
FreeCat:
Sorry, Boggin. I confused you by not being complete. Originally, I did not know to run this from the existing windows, but I did some reading and figured that out. I already did all you said and it kept saying things like can not continue as some updates needed and you must run again: "The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task, and then restart the upgrade to continue. Windows needs to be restarted so necessary changes to system files can be made before continuing."
Finally, I just ran it again, and again, I got more or less the same messages. I figured that may the third time is the charm and still got the same messages. (BTW each run takes about a half hour.)
I am tempted at the beginning to not take the fork that says get latest updates. But, with that fork there is warning about being vulnerable to virus, etc. But, then I figured that I did something way wrong and stopped before taking that fork. I saved the screens if you want to look at them.
Boggin:
Yes, can you post those.
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