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Scan Interrupted, Can No Longer Boot to Visible Logon Screen
lmitchell:
Our last posts crossed, except mine didn't post. I,ll try to be brief (impossible for me, I know) repeating it -
A few posts I found mentioned the black screen / mouse cursor as being caused by file permissions and resolved by successfully resetting to defaults. That seemed plausible to me considering TWR spent hours changing them during stage 2, probably 80percent of the time it was running. I wanted to do so (for all maybe, not just the syste m) but the instructions online were confusing and/or not formatted well. Probably better to not have taken the chance.
I also remembered that I made a restore point from within TWR along with the registry backups. Where is it and is it acceptable to and usable by Windows System Restore? I've had Volume Shadow Copy and System Restore always active but its been hit or miss whether restore points are in the panel when I need them. Sometimes there have been none.
I would have tried it already if theire were useable points. There are three from 2014 and those were long gone sequential backups to an internal drive. I probably made one othe restore point from within a program when I was doing scans. No idea which program, where it is or even if can be restored external to the program that created it.
So am back in restrui and only the same three two-year old points are showing there.
Boggin:
I can't believe you still have restore points that old.
If they hang then you would have no option but to power shutdown, which was the cause of my black screen with cursor.
They could also be corrupt.
Hang on, I'm going to see if I can activate my WR from a cmd prompt with its .exe, but not sure it will work from the recovery environment.
Boggin:
No it doesn't although it has to be run from within Windows and the only .exe I can find is Repair_Windows.exe which isn't even recognised in a normal cmd prompt.
As you don't have any restore points that you can rely on, I can't think of any other way to get you back to before you ran WR or to get out of this black screen, other than what you doing by backing up your files in preparation to installing a new HDD.
It's possible that WR in carrying out its repairs hit a tender spot on the HDD, but for me, as you have nothing else to lose - I would try the MBR repairs, but back up your files first should that cause even more to hit the fan.
I'm going to have to shoot off now but will be back in about 3hrs.
lmitchell:
I don't think those points actually exist. I think they're from external backups done with Macrium or EaseUS that were somehow not deleted from whereever backups are listed.
Occassionally I,ve done Disk Cleanup and have selected the "Delet All But Most Recent Backup" to regain drive space. I did so as recently as last week. But I've also installed updates since then.Windows is supposed to make backups before updates, but I can't count how many times I've checked that restore is activated (System -- Advanced Options) yet it shows 0MB restore points. Should have been a clue to keep better backups, but I don't trust Windows restore options and EaseUS and Macrium frequently fail partway through or during verification, so I've done it less and less frequently.
lmitchell:
Okay. I opened explorer via notepad via command line. There are some accessible txt logs - ntbtlo from today, bcdlog from a couple of weeks ago, Tweaking.com repair set up log from Monday. They may be of limited used considering nothing can be run to force corrections from the state I,m stuck in.
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