My son's laptop has all three OSs on different partitions. He now cannot get past the HP logo on opening. After that the screen goes black.
I have used the installation disks for all three OSs; i.e., the disks I used to install each OS with their respective product keys, and repair disks for 7 and 8 to try to boot into any of the partitions. I have used System Refresh. I have gone into command prompt to run scandisk /f, fix mbr and fix boot on each of the partitions. Nada.
I pulled out an old Ubuntu distro and booted the laptop with it. I can see all the OSs and all the documents that need to be recovered.
Does anyone have an idea how to boot into any of the partitions? I suppose I could simply reinstall the OS in either 8 or XP (his files are in the 7 partition). Before I do that, I probably want to copy the documents using Ubuntu or do some other backup. Any backup suggestions?
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