Yeah,
I tried all the shutdown tricks; FYI: been working Windows OS since 1987; I've become
pretty good at troubleshooting, etc.
As all shutdown attempts yield the spinning dots, the power button is the only way I can kill the OS
to start again. I allowed the shutdown process to go for over an hour.
Each time I come back up, I check taskman and the partition utility. Neither show any indication of
a valid disk controller driver. Part util just hangs then eventually dies indicating it cannot connect to
the virtual disk service. I did not record the error in the dialog that appeared; suffice it to say, I allowed
CCleaner to send the report in hopes Piriform could analyze it and give me a course of action.
MTA, g'day back to ya mayte! Yes, I clicked analyze. The only button available to start the analysis process.
Last night, I let windows stay in the shutdown mode while I went to bed. I awoke to a screen indicating
windows couldn't shut down successfully. I continued on that screen, the box bounced; and whaaaala,
when the OS came up, I had my disk drivers. All functionality returned.
I cannot explain what happened with CCleaner, but Windows eventually corrected the problem all on its own.
thanks guys!
mike
