Haymaker007

I was afraid of that, but not my drive and their backup habits........, well I agree. Sorry with a boot cd/dvd I was able to get it to try for a restore from the recovery side of things. Safe mode I was going with F8 prior to boot. I was hoping that cc would be able to look at the registry for me and repair or delete the missing links or pointers. It would appear the error is IE related (which is consistent with the explanation givenof events that occurred) and was affected during power down to cause the damages and thereby preventing the drive from completing its power on tests etc.. I will do a back up of the drive to my own/external and then do the install/updates/reinstalls and reload the data documents from my external drive when I have their system stable and operating. I might see what Recuva can do for me. Once again thanks folks appreciate the information. Knowledge and sharing is a wonderful thing.

I have a computer running Vista that I am unable to start in any safe modes. Startup repair seems to suggest all hardware is fine and it should run. I am also unable to get Vista to restore to a point which is 60 days prior. The suspected problem comes from an IE/MSM/Windows mail uninstall which was interupted (intentionally) when the user hit power during the procedure. Now the machine starts and hangs. Several error numbers (while attempting Windows "restore") seem to point to a corrupted or missing/misallocated registry entries or IE related matters. I have taken this hard drive and installed it as a secondary drive on another vista machine to at least retrieve the data files. Before restoring/recovery back to factory defaults I would like to run cc against the drive but when I run it, it points to the primary drive. Is there a way to make it look for the affected drive or windows directory? I beleive that if I make it the primary and the good drive secondary it will not start and simply recreate the situation from the original scenario. I think a manual edit of the registry might work, but this is a little beyond where I feel comfortable. Great product and any constructive help/directions/suggestions really appreciated.