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Airborne Ranger
ExcaliburXVII
Posts: 4,090
Registered: ‎07-28-2006

Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

It's Windows 7 Home Premium, and I have no idea what happened. It sounds like a virus, but if I don't have to format I'm not going to.

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Egglick
Posts: 8,484
Registered: ‎01-28-2004

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

Run Memtest86 on the affected machine overnight.  Pop out the hard drive and use another computer to do a scan for errors and also a virus scan.

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Transco901
Posts: 5,076
Registered: ‎07-29-2006

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

So, did you just re-install your OS?


Airborne Ranger
ExcaliburXVII
Posts: 4,090
Registered: ‎07-28-2006

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

The computer's just been sitting there, off. I hate people who don't know jack about computers sometimes. I don't even know how you would **bleep** up a computer this badly in a few minutes.
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jimfaster
Posts: 15
Registered: ‎07-20-2011

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

CPU (or processor) can not catch a virus. Is your operating system (Windows) is infected with viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, etc.

Did you know:

1 - enter the dining options and tried to restore your PC to an earlier
2 - Restore partition used to create a system restore
3 - Use the recovery discs (DVD or CD), entirely erased, format and install the Windows operating system pre-installed with the manufacturer when you purchased your computer



Blooded Grunt
Posts: 2,465
Registered: ‎11-14-2004

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails


jimfaster wrote:

CPU (or processor) can not catch a virus. Is your operating system (Windows) is infected with viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, etc.

Did you know:

1 - enter the dining options and tried to restore your PC to an earlier
2 - Restore partition used to create a system restore
3 - Use the recovery discs (DVD or CD), entirely erased, format and install the Windows operating system pre-installed with the manufacturer when you purchased your computer





Who said anything about a CPU?

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dolynick
Posts: 1,856
Registered: ‎02-26-2007

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

Chkdsk /r is probably the first thing I would do. I've seen a couple PCs lately that would BSOD or otherwise fail to boot sorted out this way. Certainly worth a shot if you haven't tried it already.

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Sharpshooter
ICDP
Posts: 3,366
Registered: ‎01-07-2004

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

Don't know about a virus, but my CPU seems to have a fever. :smileywink:
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ZyloxDragon
Posts: 22
Registered: ‎10-06-2011

Re: Computer boots to System Recovery only, and System Restore fails

Memory test and chkdsk are going to be your best bet. If it still doesn't boot, more than likely you have some system files that have been corrupted. Most malware rely on the OS to be booted and running for it to actuall stop you from doing any type of repairs, but it could have corrupted other things before hand.

 

You could also sfc/scannow at a command prompt to have it check the system files, but that's a long shot since it goes off a stored copy that could also have been modified.

 

Last thing I'd do, and I'm not sure if this actually works in Win 7 but does in XP and Vista, would be to delete some of the registry files, the older versions of Windows would recreate them on boot with something of a clean slate, but that's only if you don't have any other options. I would run a recovery rather than doing that unless I didn't have my discs.

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