Question

Hello, I have a problem booting a new upgraded windows 7 from vista. It will not load the OS at all, it just stucks at a black screen with a blinking dash top-left.

bootrec /fixboot tells me (The volume does not contain a recognized file system.) bcdedit shows me the following:

Windows boot loader

identifier --

device -- partition=C:

path -- \Windows\system32\winload.exe

description -- Windows 7 Ultimate

osdevice -- partition=C:

systemroot -- \Windows

I have a windows vista dvd. How can i use that to backup stuff from my documents?

Answer 1

To backup the documents for your user account:

XCOPY C:\Users\[your_username] [destination] /S

Where [destination] specifies where you'd like them copied, F:\backup for example.