If booting freezes or you get stuck forever in the Windows Recovery Environment then you need to manually restore the automatically created backups for bootmgr and winload.exe.

The main goal is to copy "bootmgr~1" to "bootmgr" (at the root of some partition) and "winload~1.exe" to "winload.exe" (in \Windows\system32). After that you will be able to boot.

The first beta version of the Windows 7 Boot Updater has been released! This includes many fixes and improvements over the last version. I am releasing it as "Beta" since I have greater confidence in it's stability over all of the previous versions.

See http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot/ for more information and the download.

A program that makes it easy to update the Windows 7 boot animation and text. Please tell me if you find any problems or design cool animations!

Some parts of / contributions to the program are released as open-source.