I recently returned home after a 10 day trip and when I turned my computer back on it would not boot/open at all.I have a dual-boot setup running Win8.1 and Win7 Pro. The default OS is Win8.1, and -- as a matter of fact -- I probably haven't even opened Win7 for almost a year. Before I left all was working fine, I just did a full shutdown and turned everything else off.After a long time staring at the usual logo and the spinning wheel, I got the message about "Automatic Repair" That ran overnight with no results, so I did a hard restart and eventually got to a message saying "Diagnosing your Computer"That screen also did not change after many hours. At one time while fiddling with this I got the option to restore to an earlier point but that was not sucessful.Now if I attempt to boot into 8 I am told windows cannot find the file: "\Windows\system32\winload.exe" I can still boot into Windows 7 and from there I can open the W8 partition and drill down through directories to "\Windows\system32\winload.exe" and that file appears to be in the proper place but something isn't right...I'm hoping I might to be able to fix this from within Windows 7 and avoid a refresh or reset.Thanks,Philip
My Computer
System One
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