Hi.
I accidentally removed a usb cable from a powered usb hub , and a volume slider of some other program appeared superimposed and floating above my music making program , so I restarted the pc.
From then on , it wouldnt start , and kept saying preparing automatic repair, then reached 40% and wouldnt go any further.
After trying this a number of times , it has now changed to a blue screen with a sad face and it says " critical process died"
I unplugged my 2 external drives because they werent showing in the bios , and plugged them into my laptop to check they were ok , and im relieved to say they are.
Since i removed the drives , my desktop ( asus ) will eventually arrive at the blue recovery screen , but all these things that are supposed to help fix it , arent working.
When I try to refresh , it says the drive where windows is installed is locked
Ive tried to do a system restore from 3 different restore points and none of them have worked ( one actually cited a mozilla profile as being the cause )
Re-image wont work because it cant find the image file , which is on one of my external drives which are now unplugged.
Automatic repair diagnoses , but then says it cant repair.
I can use command prompt, and was hoping I could rename the system hive name , but the command prompt says
X=\windows\system32.
I have successfuly ran regedit from the command prompt , but to be honest , im out of my depth and dont know what im doing , but at least something is working.
From the recovery section , ive been able to run chkdsk c: r/f/x , and it replaced 2 bad clusters , and I thought it was fixed , but upon restart it just went straight back into the repairing / cant repair , debacle.
I had no reasons to expect anything untoward before yesterday. I try to look after it, and keep files neat and well ordered, so this was a bolt from the blue.
. The automatic repair thing happened before , about 4 months ago , but i was always able to get out of it by switching it off at the wall. Now that doesnt work and its in an endless loop .
Could someone help me to get this thing started again ?
