Beosound 5 & Windows SE

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Looking for help as I’ve kinda forgot the ins and outs of the BS5 and it’s settings. A few years ago, I gave my Son my BS5 as his Uni music box beater. The head unit was ok but the BM5 cabinet has gone somewhat sticky. So after being down for a number of months, his BS5 has had issues booting up again. I briefly played around with it and went through recovery mode but still no final boot up. The BS5 is indicating a windows SE component is corrupted (forgot which sys file). Question is….how do I recover this. I think the B&O shell makes it impossible to access or repair the OS……so it’s in through the USB port with a bootable drive. Does anyone know if I should repair the OS and will it delete the B&O BM5 shell or will the Beotool fix everything - OS and BS5 shell? Please let me know if you have any ideas?
You might wan't to look in this thread where the servicetool is also available for download

Location: Denmark

Hi Thanks. Fully aware of that link. My question is how to repair the windows system failure? does the tool fix (windows)  or just the B&O wrapper for BS5 or both? Regards
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