Brought home parents Win 7 x 64 bit hard drive and plugged it in as slave on my Win 7 64 bit. I could get into histories and find problems, removed malware, no problem, but no disk with straight Win 7 to recover start up drivers. I have tried many times to download the iso, but my internet will not handle it. The recovery discs we have are loaded with the wrong machine drivers so won't open for their machine. I can enter the drive as slave with no problem, but when change boot order to start from it, I get to the sign in and it freezes on aero screen asking if I want to repair or start normally. Start normally option does nothing, repair only loops back to restart to log in and and freezes again at next screen. Appears to have run into problem when downloading a MSE update on March 21 and cycling over and over trying to extract to cab file not found, but had other unrelated issues which made me search for malware.
Question is, since the windows won't start to run this software from F where problem drive is, can I in any way switch it to run on F: drive while operating from my working C: drive? Any suggestions on reinstalling the Win start up files to a locked up drive would be greatly appreciated. Flash drive not opening when running on F:. Thanks!