StogieChat Cigar Forum - Need IT help..son's computer won't load windows 7

I need some IT help please.

My son's computer won't load Windows 7. Apparently it just happened this morning & he just now told me.

It boots up & then goes right into Start Up Repair...which fails.

We've tried Last Known Good...same issue.

I've tried 3 different older restore points...same issue.

It was running Windows 7 Ultimate, MB is an MSI 870A-G54

Any ideas?

We opened the case..not much dust. Ram was not loose. All other connections seemed fine.

I was in the BIOS, ram is fine. Everything looks fine. Changed the boot default to the DVD drive & have the Windows 7 disk in it.

running a ckhdsk on the boot drive right now

sounds like a broken MBR or something like that

(08-25-2014, 05:10 PM)Tonto Wrote: [ -> ]running a ckhdsk on the boot drive right now

It just finished.

Still have the same problem. Sad

(08-25-2014, 07:24 PM)Teck1337 Wrote: [ -> ]sounds like a broken MBR or something like that

Any way to fix that, short of doing a new install?

(he has Office 2010 installed & the disk & code are in a downstairs room that is being remodeled = it's packed with crap right now)

How recent is your backup?

(08-25-2014, 07:47 PM)nayslayer Wrote: [ -> ]How recent is your backup?

Mine, fairly recent. My son's....what decade is this? Confused

I'm going to try bootrec.exe /FixMbr

(08-25-2014, 07:54 PM)Tonto Wrote: [ -> ]I'm going to try bootrec.exe /FixMbr

It said it was executed successfully, but problems still exists.