Post by risman on Jul 8, 2021 16:30:19 GMT -5
Running Win 10 64-bit v. 21H1 19043.1081. Crashed and couldn't repair using Windows Recovery Environment on USB, and couldn't find any restore point. I was using Macrium Reflect for backup and tried to repair using its Rescue USB but couldn't access the image files that way. Had another SSD drive with older version of Windows on it (same computer) and older version of Macrium on it, and managed to restore using the image file, but apparently the restored version had whatever corruption was that caused the crash in the first place.
Now I can open Windows and it displays all my icons but only some programs work (MS Office apps and a few others, but many don't, including most of what can be accessed by right clicking the Windows button (e.g., file explorer, power shell, settings). When I try to update Windows, nothing happens. When I was in older version of Windows, I ran sfc /scannow on the drive with the newer version and it found and said it corrected corrupted files. Chkdsk doesn't work that way. I can't open cmd in elevated mode to run chkdsk or sfc. When I change user to Administrator, I can open cmd in elevated mode, and running sfc shows the same corrupted and repaired message, but nothing happens when I try chkdsk (all it says is the file system is NTFS and just hangs there).
Am at my wits end. Can anyone offer any help??
Now I can open Windows and it displays all my icons but only some programs work (MS Office apps and a few others, but many don't, including most of what can be accessed by right clicking the Windows button (e.g., file explorer, power shell, settings). When I try to update Windows, nothing happens. When I was in older version of Windows, I ran sfc /scannow on the drive with the newer version and it found and said it corrected corrupted files. Chkdsk doesn't work that way. I can't open cmd in elevated mode to run chkdsk or sfc. When I change user to Administrator, I can open cmd in elevated mode, and running sfc shows the same corrupted and repaired message, but nothing happens when I try chkdsk (all it says is the file system is NTFS and just hangs there).
Am at my wits end. Can anyone offer any help??
