agiorgianni
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Hello All
I had to do a hard shut down on my Toshiba laptop last night (the machine froze). When I restarted (and every time I try to restart), startup repair comes on. If I try to follow it, it does not show an operating system. System restore is disabled.
But I have Rollback, which normally bails me out of any problems. I have about eight restore points, including one saved when I reinstalled years ago. Even with this problem, Rollback, which starts pre-Windows, is letting me load the restore points as it should - which should put the drive back to the way it was yesterday (I made a restore point yesterday before having to do a hard shutdown).
But after the restore, Windows startup repair keep launching, making me think that something has set at BiOS level? I'm thinking this because with yeserday's Rollback restore point loaded, the drive should be just like it was yesterday, when I wasn't having any problems. (I tried loading all of the Rollback restore points going back years - including the one I created right after I reformatted - but startup repair keeps launching on all of them)
So I'm thinking that Windows isn't even trying to start because startup repair launches first, maybe due to some set flag somewhere - in the BiOS maybe? I could be wrong about that, but it's the only thing that makes sense. All the Rollback restore points are intact. I haven't tried safe mode yet, but I'm seeing other posts that say that once startup repair is set, it comes up pre-safe mode as well. Maybe it need to be disabled somehow?
This happened once before and I wound up reformatting. I would like to avoid doing that.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Anthony Giorgianni
I had to do a hard shut down on my Toshiba laptop last night (the machine froze). When I restarted (and every time I try to restart), startup repair comes on. If I try to follow it, it does not show an operating system. System restore is disabled.
But I have Rollback, which normally bails me out of any problems. I have about eight restore points, including one saved when I reinstalled years ago. Even with this problem, Rollback, which starts pre-Windows, is letting me load the restore points as it should - which should put the drive back to the way it was yesterday (I made a restore point yesterday before having to do a hard shutdown).
But after the restore, Windows startup repair keep launching, making me think that something has set at BiOS level? I'm thinking this because with yeserday's Rollback restore point loaded, the drive should be just like it was yesterday, when I wasn't having any problems. (I tried loading all of the Rollback restore points going back years - including the one I created right after I reformatted - but startup repair keeps launching on all of them)
So I'm thinking that Windows isn't even trying to start because startup repair launches first, maybe due to some set flag somewhere - in the BiOS maybe? I could be wrong about that, but it's the only thing that makes sense. All the Rollback restore points are intact. I haven't tried safe mode yet, but I'm seeing other posts that say that once startup repair is set, it comes up pre-safe mode as well. Maybe it need to be disabled somehow?
This happened once before and I wound up reformatting. I would like to avoid doing that.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Anthony Giorgianni
