[Did CCleaner erase critical start-up files]

If, as Tarq57 hopes, you did an issues back up when prompted, it goes by default to"my documents". Select merge when you click on it.

 

System restore?

 

Did you have something on those computers that made you want to take such action?

 

 

Tarq57 / hazelnut: thanks for the replies. No, there was nothing adverse on my computer. I mistakenly thought I would be getting rid of "unused" files and make my system faster. Worse yet, I did not do the back-up. I really shouldn't have messed with the fix issues function.

 

At this point, I can't even boot up. I suppose I need to get the restore disks and start from scratch...?

 

Thanks,

dano123

[Did CCleaner erase critical start-up files]

Ok, I'm new and this is my first post. I'ts also my first time using CCleaner. I used the "Scan for Issues' tab, and then clicked "fix selected issues" (with ALL issues selected). There were many dll files that were removed when this happened - I didn't even read half of what it was removing.

 

In any event, here is my prob: After running the fix issues, I rebooted my laptop (or tried to), and I got an error message: SMART Failure Predicted on Hard disk. WARNING: Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive.

 

Here is the real problem...I've done this now on 2 separate laptops - and they are pretty new machines as well. To make matters worse, they belong to my work. There is no way that the disk drives can be bad on both these machines - something had to happen when I performed the "fix issues" function.

 

Any thoughts or advice (other than looking for a new job, or buying new hard drives??)

By the way, yes, I am a computer novice...If you couldn't tell that already...

 

Thanks,

dano123