This topic continues from my posts here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=39841
Does the same thing happen if you start in safe mode?
Have you tried running SFC ?
When you said ''I think I know what I did'', do you feel like telling us what it was Nikki?
Does the same thing happen if you start in safe mode - I didn't start in Safe Mode before restoring the image.
Have you tried running SFC - Yes, I ran SFC /scannow. I inserted the Win CD, had to click on Retry many times, but it went to completion with no errors displayed.
''I think I know what I did'' - I started Defraggler v2.15, did an Analyze & started a File Defrag. The program crashed, first time I had ever seen Defraggler crash, and it displayed a popup window asking if I wanted to send information to Piriform - I clicked yes.
Knowing this was an older version, I updated to the current version, 2.16, updated Speccy to version 1.24 and updated another program (not Piriform). I then ran the new Defraggler (File Defrag) which ran to completion.
I use FF (25.0.1) as my default browser, but of course, IE8 is also installed. The first problem I noticed is that if I click on a web link in an email, the web page would no longer open in FF. I rarely use IE8 but when I tried to start it, I found it would not start (no error msg). I right-clicked on the IE shortcut on the Desktop and selected Properties to look at the Option settings - nothing happened. I went into Control Panel and tried to start Internet Options from there - nothing happened.
It was at this point yesterday, that I re-imaged the drive (Seagate). I again updated Defraggler, Speccy and the other program. Everything seemed fine to the point where I powered it off last night.
Then, this morning as I said, it took a very long time to boot up and my original problems are back.
This morning, I scheduled a chkdsk and rebooted to let it run. This was the result:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 2391 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2391 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2391 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
437187552 KB total disk space.
85838084 KB in 135200 files.
50704 KB in 8524 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
313908 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
350984856 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
109296888 total allocation units on disk.
87746214 allocation units available on disk.
Internal Info:
90 6d 02 00 78 31 02 00 04 39 03 00 00 00 00 00 .m..x1...9......
33 34 00 00 03 00 00 00 e4 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 34..............
b8 4e 03 0f 00 00 00 00 c4 05 91 5e 00 00 00 00 .N.........^....
2c 2a cd 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ,*.@............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f4 21 e6 b7 00 00 00 00 .........!......
40 aa 42 be 00 00 00 00 b8 3a 07 00 20 10 02 00 @.B......:.. ...
00 00 00 00 00 10 24 77 14 00 00 00 4c 21 00 00 ......$w....L!..
Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
I just finished running the Seagate diagnostic program SeaTools. Both the short & long tests ran to completion without error.
I am about to re-image the drive again back to an earlier date.