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My Wife and I have the machine fixed now, and Windows 7 is reinstalled, and we managed to get the Data off of it. I finally got some sleep too. We both are looking at a Net Drive, because even though...

To fix the situation, we found a bootable CD that we used to resize the HD, and then, we're moving the Data to a partition, and then, going to change the sizes, and reinstall Windows. This way we...

Well, I have another update, and, since I have a little more time, I can go into more detail:

First; The Microsoft tech support....I remember back when I first got into Unix based OSs, I was...

Just an update -

So far, I've gotten the CD to boot, and I'm currently copying the files I need to a folder on the HD as I got write access from NTFS-3g, so I'm copying files I need into a folder,...

The link you posted, shows a message very similar to the one I get, but the one I'm getting says "Corrupt File" instead of bad driver. Of course it doesn't say what file, or give me an option to put...

The fixmbr and fixboot don't run, and say they aren't recognized, and for the chkdsk, I got the same error someone on a forum had gotten where it said "failed to transfer log messages to the event...

Yup, sure does. Would have been nice if there had been one. Then I could have googled that error to see if there was something else I could do.

I wasn't in the room when it happened, but my Wife...

Well, right now, I just finished burning the ISO of that SystemRescue thing I found, and it has Gparted as well. I'm not sure if I've ever actually used Gparted, but I know what it is.
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By the way; I saw a few people saying on some of those forums that if the Windows DVD was damaged it wouldn't work, and to always check with a bootable CD to rule that out, and I did that as well.
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Safemode doesn't work either. My first thought was "OK, I'll boot safemode, try to fix it, and go from there" but then, I realized the extent of the horror that is....Well, whatever it's called.

I...

I also found this article as well:

http://helpdesk.computercentral-inc.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=17

I haven't tried that yet, but looking at it, I'm not sure...

This is a ****ing Nightmare... My Wife was using Her Computer earlier, and was simply playing a game. She said that a Windows Update popped up in the bottom right corner of the screen as it has a...