Need some system recovery help

My Windows 7 (64-bit) system crashed during Windows updates. As a result of the crash, the system is no longer able to boot. Microsoft could not find any way to repair the apparently corrupt boot image and/or partition table, but the drive and data appear to be intact. Most of what I'm losing is setup time, not data, but I don't have a recent enough drive image to be worth while (shame on me).

What I am wondering is if there is a way to restore an image of the current drive, without restoring the corrupt boot image and related files or partition table. I realize an image made with Drive Backup is a bit level image, and I feel like this is kind of a dumb question, but thought I'd ask anyway just to see if there are any options. If no options exist, I'll do the clean install and hopefully be better about running Drive Backup on a regular basis.

Thanks,
Doug

 

I would do just what you said

 

Kinda what I figured. Thanks for the reply.

Doug