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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?

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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.

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found that i needed to add an /E to copy sub dirs – Shawn Mclean Nov 13 '09 at 20:55
/E will copy all subdirectories, even empty ones. If you want to exclude empty ones use /S. – John T Nov 14 '09 at 6:48
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