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Help! I really messed up Windows

david31160
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So today I accidentally messed up some system files or something (too hard to explain what happened) and my PC won't boot and the repair tools cannot repair it. I only really care about my data on the drive Windows was installed on and I'm currently trying to copy my stuff off the drive after I tore my other drive with windows out of my server and put it in my PC. Do you guys know if I can still "fix" Windows or should I reinstall the OS? Can I just clone my hard drive for the server to my solid state drive in my PC instead of reinstalling Windows because I only have a copy of Windows 8.1? Please help I'm trying not to panic and my friend who has a extra copy of Windows 10 is currently busy.

Alnair (Main PC):

CPU: i9-7900X with EK Supremacy RGB and SE 360 radiator

RAM: 32 GB Trident Z RGB 3000 MHz

MB: Gigabyte X299 Gaming 7

GPU: GTX 1070 Founder’s Edition

PSU: EVGA 850 G3

SSD: WD Blue M.2 1tb, Sandisk SSD Plus 1tb

 

Mistle (NAS):

CPU: Pentium G3258 with stock cooler

RAM: 8GB HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 MHz

MB: MSI H81M-E33

GPU: Intel integrated 

PSU: 500w Cooler Master

HDD: 2 x 2tb WD Red in RAID 1

 

Armakarth (NAS/3D modeling station/my old computer)

CPU: i7-4790K with Hyper 212

RAM: 8GB HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 MHz

MB: MSI Z97-G45

GPU: EVGA GT 740 SC

PSU: 750W Sentey

SSD: Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB

HDD: 2 x 2tb WD Red in RAID 1, 2tb Seagate Barracuda, 1tb WD Blue

 

The Pizza Cooker (server):

2x quad core 2.66 ghz Xeons

16gb DDR2 FBDIMM

 

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If you only want the data off your Windows drive, just plug it into your server and pull the data off of it.

 

The easiest thing to do after that would be just to do a clean re-install on the drive and then put your data back on it.

 

Just make a Windows 10 USB installer or burn it to a DVD or something using that Media Creation Tool.

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