I can't recover Windows 7

[cinusara]

Hello I have a computer with two systems and two SSD hard drives, one with win7 and another with win10.
When I start windows 7 it jumps to a blue screen, and I can't fix it, I've tried everything,
checking the drive of 7 from win 10 everything seems correct, with win10 I enter the 7, I passed the chkdsk in cmd and everything is correct.
I have a system repair disk of 7 and it doesn't solve it, it doesn't fix it.
I've tried with hirens boot, and it doesn't detect the drives.
From the repair disk of 7 and with the cmd command I've tried with
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd.
And I still can't get into win 7 it keeps jumping to the blue screen.
What else can I try before formatting and losing everything.
Thanks

[Sylver]

Silly question: have you tried booting Windows 7 in safe mode?

Best regards

[cinusara]

if it seems like a silly question, I've already tried with all the F keys and I can't get the safe mode option,
what bothers me the most is that I had made a win7 recovery disk and it doesn't solve the problem either.
I don't know what else I can do, maybe one of you who understands much more about this can help me and tell me what I can do before formatting. Thanks

[Sylver]

Well, it should come out somehow, in principle with F8 as soon as it starts up. Physically disconnecting the Windows 10 computer might help with this.
What kind of computer is it? Maybe with more data about it we can figure something out.

Regards

[AXUS]

@cinusara said in can't recover windows 7:

if it seems like a silly question, I've already tried all the F keys and I can't get the safe mode option,
what bothers me the most is that I had made a win7 recovery disk and it doesn't solve the problem either.
I don't know what else I can do, maybe someone of you who understands much more about this can help me and tell me what I can do before formatting. Thanks

Hello and if you download an Iso of 7 and reinstall it?

[cinusara]

Hello, well, the equipment I have is an Asus H97m-plus motherboard socket 1150,
an Intel core i5 4590 processor,
16.0GB Dual-chanel ddr3 Ram
Nvidia Geforce gtx 970 graphics card
2 Kingston 223 GB ssd hard drives
I have windows 7 pro x64 on one drive
and windows 10 pro x64 on the other

As I told you, the f8 key does not work for me, besides I have checked it with windows 10 in computer management and the drive is fine, I have tried with a recovery image from windows 7 itself and it does not fix it,
I have mounted an image on a usb to repair the system, it says it repairs it but when I restart, it's a blue screen as soon as it starts.
The only option it gives me is to reinstall windows from scratch but I would lose everything.

I'm annoyed that in theory the drive is in perfect condition and there is no way to fix the boot, and why the f8 key does not work,
is there any way to enter 7 with windows 10 and in msconfig of 7 enable it to enter safe mode

Thanks

[Sylver]

Have you tried physically disconnecting the drive that has Windows 10? Maybe this will allow you to access it, or even by changing the SATA port on the drive. There is no apparent correlation between the problem and any of this, but it is not the first time that the simplest of actions solves a problem of unknown origin in whole or in part.

On another note, if you had no choice but to format, you can access from the Windows 10 drive and copy everything important from the Windows 7 drive. You would still have to do the formatting and reinstallation, but you can save quite relevant things, such as documents, saved program data, browser profile with its bookmarks, favorites, etc. This way you can leave it practically as it was before the formatting.

Regards

[cinusara]

Well, I have already done what you said and I have disconnected the disk with win 10, and I have changed the sata entries of the disk and nothing continues the same, I have downloaded an iso of windows 7 and I try it by usb in all ways, even by cmd with the command bootrec /fixmbr, it tells me that it has done it correctly but when starting windows it continues the same.
It has frustrated me as if everything is theoretically well and the start of win 7 is not recovered.
By the way the error code that comes out is 0xc000000e I have looked at it but it does not specify anything, well I will try it one more day and if I can not I will format and reinstall.
Thanks.

[cinusara]

I forgot that before installing Windows 10 on the second SSD, the F8 key worked for me. Since I have Windows 10, it doesn't work for me. Why???

[Sylver]

I don't really know how you will have it configured, but it is likely that when you installed Windows 10 and there was already a disk with the installation of 7, it overwrote the bootloader and now Windows 10 manages it.

It is possible that the failure persists, but to try... You can connect the disk with Windows 7 to another computer as the only drive and try to boot. If there is already a previous error, it will probably jump again, but it could be worth a try.

Greetings

[cinusara]

Well I don't know, the fact is that the two windows were working together, one on the 7th and the other on the 10th, for a couple of months, the only thing I noticed when I installed the 10th was that it changed the boot to choose which operating system to use and that is controlled by wind10, I think the 10th has a lot to do with this but I don't know how.
thanks

[Sylver]

I would try to connect the Windows 7 disk to another computer and boot it up, it is possible that even if it does not start normally, you can still access the error-proof mode with F8.

Regards

[Fassou]

Backups are the best friends of anyone who gets close to a computer.

By now you should have a copy of the content that might interest you from the SSD with W7, and even from the W10 one.

To see the SSDs in tools like HBCD you should use a more current version.

My experience with multi-booting on desktops always ends with the recommendation to put a disk rack with independent power, like this one, because of the advantages it offers.

Be clear about what you want to achieve, and forget about using W7 recovery tools, if you don't want to mess up access to W10.

If the one with W10 interests you less or you're willing to reinstall it (I get the feeling that here you imply that you reinstalled it again and that could be the origin of the problem), if you have two identical SSDs, you leave only the one with W10 whose relevant content you already have saved elsewhere, you install W7 from scratch and when you're already in the file copying phase after booting from the SSD, you exit (if you want to do the full installation it's up to you, it's to save time), you turn it off, you connect the second SSD and with a program like Ghost or any other that allows you to clone partitions, you overwrite the partitions of the SSD you want to recover on the one you just installed.

You remove the damaged one again, and you try to boot, and it should work.

All this is thinking that you haven't been touching anything in BIOS, nor have the SATA data cables fallen to pieces or similar things.

Best regards.