I consider myself to be a computer repair expert yet I am stumped here. I had a hard drive fail on me but luckily I had the machine backed up to a Windows Home Server so I thought I could just restore from the server and be on my way. Turns out that is not the case. Upon trying to boot from the restored drive I received the error:
The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum.
This happens almost immediately when you turn the computer on, far before you could get into safe mode. Of course the normal cause of this message is bad RAM which it turns out I did have and I replaced that RAM trying multiple other sticks that I know are good and still no luck. I have used Ubuntu's Live disc memory test tools many times since then with no issues.
Additionally it should be noted that booting from a Windows 7 CD gives me the same error however that may just be a bad disc. Today I was able to successfully get into the Windows 7 repair options by booting off a USB drive. I have tried running bootrec but still no luck.
This machine is/was running Windows 7 x64 SP1. Any and all suggestions are welcome at this point.
