Windows 7 boot failure help!

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So last night I offered to uninstall some of the Acer rubbish on my sisters laptop, uninstalled some stuff and then shutdown the PC. I couldn't reboot because I didn't have the password, however it booted to login screen when I hard turned it off cause I was in a hurry.

Anyhow,

This morning the thing will not boot to windows, crashes soon after the windows logo. I have also tried safe mode where it hangs loading atipcie.sys.

I cannot run system repair or system restore, both hang at some point loading.

Any ideas of what I can do? I am currently running a scan of the HDD from UBCD so see if it has decided to die but other than this I am lost.

Thanks
 
It hangs on the "pretty" blue windows 7 background when I try system repair, same for system restore.
 
Create a Windows 7 System repair CD using Backup & Restore Wizard from any other Win7 PC and then boot using that disk on the laptop.

Choose to restore the system to an earlier time using restore points and choose one of the System Checkpoints that Windows will have created from the last known successful reboots.

This might work.
 
mrk said:
Create a Windows 7 System repair CD using Backup & Restore Wizard from any other Win7 PC and then boot using that disk on the laptop.

Choose to restore the system to an earlier time using restore points and choose one of the System Checkpoints that Windows will have created from the last known successful reboots.

This might work.
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I have tried this, the recovery disk loads as far as showing installed copies of windows where it hangs with the blue loading circle. It shows the installed windows partition size as 0mb.

EDIT, I am going to try an ubuntu live cd when the HDD scan is finished and see if I can replace the atipcie.sys.
 
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Could possibly be a HDD failure then, if you hard powered down the LT by long pressing the power button then the HDD would have shut down in an unsafe manner and data could have been lost/corrupted.
 
Advanced scan on the Hitachi HDD utility displayed error 0x72 which I understand to be a general "bad news" error. I have since booted into ubuntu where I can mount the drive, backing up all my sisters documents before I try anything else.

(Ubuntu is rather nice these days!)
 
It's likely this would have happened sooner or later anyway, you just put the final nail in the coffin with the hard shutdown... Why on earth didn't you just shut the machine down properly?

If you was in a rush just press shut down and leave it?
 
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