Something corrupted in the boot folder of my computer and I was unable to get past my bios. I had upgraded from Win7 to Win10 with the free upgrade back when that was a thing, so I used the installation discs for Win7 since it was all i had and booted from those. Ran a system repair which told me to run the chkdsk utility, so I ran that through the command prompt. After that completed I let it reinstall Win7 and move all the old recovered files to the windows.old file. I also have a Win10 system backup on an external HD from a few weeks before the boot corrupted.
So now I am wondering where to go from here? I need to re-upgrade to windows 10 but I'm not sure where my license exists (and the free upgrade promotion has ended). I also can either restore stuff from the windows.old file or from the system image I have saved, but I'm assuming I need to get Win10 running first before I can do anything with either of those? Overall I'm just trying to get everything back the way it is.
So now I am wondering where to go from here? I need to re-upgrade to windows 10 but I'm not sure where my license exists (and the free upgrade promotion has ended). I also can either restore stuff from the windows.old file or from the system image I have saved, but I'm assuming I need to get Win10 running first before I can do anything with either of those? Overall I'm just trying to get everything back the way it is.