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  • Lenovo ThinkPad Won't Boot Into Windows 7

    From carson@invalidated.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 30 02:47:46 2022
    My wife has a Lenovo laptop which is about 15 years old.

    Lenovo's Repair cannot solve the problem.

    The Acronis backup is no good because the laptop cannot reach Windows
    to do anything. Only Lenovo's Repair comes on at boot. It cannot
    solve the problem after running for about five minutes or so.

    Does this sound like some computer repair outfit will be able to
    somehow reach the original Windows install?

    My wife did not receive a Windows 7 install disk with the machine when purchased new.

    I see the current price of Windows 7 installs are almost $400.

    With all the choices of ISO, USB installs, product keys, etc., etc., I
    don't have a clue what to do. If the repair shop cannot get to the
    original installation, I ain't paying $400 bucks for an old OS.

    I'd most likely buy a used computer with Windows 7 on it. My wife
    likes Win 7. I, personally, wouldn't touch the MS spyware10 or 11.

    I'm wondering what the chances are of somebody reaching the original
    OS.

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  • From carson@invalidated.com@21:1/5 to carson@invalidated.com on Sat Jul 30 02:48:40 2022
    On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 02:47:46 -0500, carson@invalidated.com wrote:

    My wife has a Lenovo laptop which is about 15 years old.


    Sorry, wrong group.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to carson@invalidated.com on Sat Jul 30 07:13:28 2022
    On 7/30/2022 3:48 AM, carson@invalidated.com wrote:
    On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 02:47:46 -0500, carson@invalidated.com wrote:

    My wife has a Lenovo laptop which is about 15 years old.


    Sorry, wrong group.

    So the disk is worn out, and you never made a *full* backup ?

    You need such backups, any time you lose a HDD, and need
    to spin up a new HDD in its place.

    I would slave up the HDD out of the laptop, to your
    technician machine, and have a look at what partitions
    are there and so on.

    It probably has an MBR if the repair is coming up.
    I don't think the entire disk is toast. But I
    also don't feel you're out of the woods either.

    Discovery is the next step.

    Paul

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  • From DK@21:1/5 to carson@invalidated.com on Sun Jul 31 01:40:24 2022
    In article <aeo9eh1lvehl3upae9gmi0m60k0rit9gg9@4ax.com>, carson@invalidated.com wrote:

    The Acronis backup is no good because the laptop cannot reach Windows
    to do anything.

    If you ever made a full disk backup with Acronis, you should be able to run Acronis Rescue disk off CD or thumb drive (it typically just loads minimal Linux to work or there are options to run Anronis Windows under WinPE environment).

    This should get your system back *provided* that your disk is still physically healthy.

    DK

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