Will not boot to Windows 7

[Carly654]

Asus
Intel Core Duo T6570, 2.1 GHz
OS: Win 7 Pro

Will not boot into Windows. Start up repair runs every time . Ran check disk and went through all 5 steps.

The latest start up repair says startup Repair could not detect a problem.

Root cause found:
The operating system version is incompatible with start up repair

 

[Carly654]

I have followed your steps 1-4 and 7 as the HD is in bios and set up as #1. No luck

A little more food for thought. If I try a system restore it says I have no restore points. Which I know I do have. It reads to create restore point open system protection. After I do that it reads: your computer is running in a limited diagnostic state. If you use system restore in this limited state, you can't undo the restore operation. If does not give me the "next option to do a system restore.
Same for complete PC restore.
At this point in time I have no CDs to help and I cannot boot into safe mode.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[lunarlander]

Assume hard drive is damaged. Go download a Linux LiveCD and boot with it. Then copy files you want to rescue from the hard disk to USB memory stick. See below web page. Note you may have to download an older version of Ubuntu as shown in the guide for this to work.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/