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Scan Interrupted, Can No Longer Boot to Visible Logon Screen
lmitchell:
I've watched the videos a few more times, can see what needs to be done and will run dos_restore.cmd in Windows. Just need to find out if those other issues might be a problem.
lmitchell:
I restored the registry via Windows and the cmd file in the Regbackup subfolder. I'm still booting to a black screen with moveable cursor (where the login screen should be), both in Safe Mode and regular boot, my OS drive is still labelled "/Regserver".
Something is happening despite the black screen because I can hear the hard drive working and the cursor momentarily shows the green "wait" circle.
When I start in Safe Mode the list of loading drivers stops at classpnp.sys.before going to the black screen with cursor. I have no idea if more drivers are supposed to load.
Trying to run System File Checker in Recovery mode is still telling me there is a pending repair (even after attempting the fixes "dism.exe /image:d: /cleanup-image /revertpendingsactions" and "dism.exe /image:d: /scratchdir:d: /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions" - slashes are missing because they aren't on the phone keyboard).
What am I supposed to do now? The backup was made by TWR three days ago, just before running TWR and getting into this mess.
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lmitchell:
It's very disheartening to return to this forum after a sleepless night Googling every possible solution that I could find, only to see at least one thread with multiple pages of assistance while I've gotten one stock answer, Youtube video links with registry restore instructions.
Based on the problem I described in my first post, black screen / mouse cursor and being completely unable to see anything past boot except in Recovery Mode, that was the least of my problems.
Using an old Windows Boot Genius disk I renamed my hard drive back to its original label. I have no idea if that relabelling was evidence of a more sinister condition that might linger despite the correction.
I finally managed to get SFC to run via Dism and offline switches.
The first registry restore did not change anything regarding login problem. I went back one further (made 10 minutes prior to the last from within TWR) and think that is what allowed Startup Repair to run. The errors if found could not all be corrected and I don't understand the log.
At this point I'd be happy to do the upgrade install that I was trying to avoid initially, but from waht I understand it can only be done from inside the user accounts? And shame on me to attempt to clear up a major annoyance before I backed
up the disk. I could not have anticipated this since I haven't had such catastrophic results from using a third-party program in my twenty years of owning computers.
Now I'm going to manually set permissions on all the system files and folders using online instructions since 8kve found threads where this is the cause of this problem, and TWR spent 20+ hours doing so in my 1Tb drive. This is my last resort barring any knowledgeable intervention from a moderator, before 8 have to spend another week or so to clean install and restore my system back to where it was so that just maybe I won't lose any more income.
Julian:
Woah hold on a second im sorry I did not get back to you. Lets see im going to read everything you posted as I just got on the forums now. Give me a moment to reply.
Julian:
Hmmm okay so explorer is crashing lets see can you make another user via recovery environment command should be net user /add username
Next command should be net localgroup administrators /add username
I want to see if its just your user profile corrupted. Next thing is if you can run chkdsk /f /r I want to see if it reports 0kb in bad sectors. Im currently away from my computer and im on my phone im sorry for the slow typing.
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