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[Jakobi]

"Windows cannot access specified device path or file...."

I read every thread on this error message and none of them apply to my situation. It has nothing to do with my settings in users or regedit. They are all correct, and by all accounts I should be in full control.

BUT

NONE of my programs run. My Computer, Control Panel, IEx64, and documents are the only things I can access. I'm locked out of everything else. Every program, process and download has this same error message. Even my Flash is disabled. I can "run as administrator" and change settings all I want, it still has this message.

I've attempted to run antivirus and registry fixes from an external device and it won't do that either. System Restore doesn't work, and I don't have the resources to reformat.

I have had a blue screen once, but it seems to be stable now.

The weirdest part is when the problem started. The day it happened, it was working perfectly fine. I shut it down, and came back later that day to use it, and it was like this all of a sudden. No one has access to it but me.

Is my laptop hopeless?

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Hello Jakobi,
Boot into safe mode and open a command prompt as administrator, type sfc/scannow press enter and let it scan, if errors are found you may need to run it again until system is clean.
This will check the file system for errors and repair any damaged files.
Try this and post your results, good luck.

 

[Jakobi]

Thank you for the reply. It ran through the scan, but it said there are corrupted files that it cannot fix. My computer also seems to be having blue screens more frequently.

Should I invest in a Vista HPx64 disc to reformat?

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Go to C > Windows > Minidump, zip up the files and upload them with your next post. You may have to save them to your desktop first.

 

[Jakobi]

It wasn't specific about which files were corrupted, and I am unable to zip them, as I can't use any programs. I am typing this from another computer

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Go to this site and download the software to a USB flash drive and boot from that, or put it on a DVD/CD and use that to boot from, this will get you into Vista and from there you can upload the dump files.

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