My program doesnt touch system restore, so not sure why those would be gone. The program should have done a registry backup.
It did. I think it did 2, actually - a backup as one of the steps, then I think it did an automatic one after clicking
Start.
But you said when the startup repair runs that it seems to freeze or take a long time at attempting repairs correct?
Yea, it will sit there for hours on end.
How long did you let it run for?
The first time it ran, I let it run for like an hour. It never said it was running chkdsk, though. Then, I tried booting into safe mode but it went into automatic startup repair again, this time it showed it was doing a chkdsk. I let it finish, and it didn't seem to change anything.
Later on, I ended up doing a manual
chkdsk /R /F through command prompt in repair mode, and it didn't find any problems.
Thanks for the reply, btw