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| Thread ID: 117507 | 2011-04-21 22:34:00 | "An unauthorized change was made to Windows" | Beemer (6956) | Press F1 |
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| 1196285 | 2011-05-13 05:24:00 | This is all very familiar - my BIL brought me his Compaq - vista basic, with exactly the same errors and issues - couldn't get on internet - limited connectivity! I saved all his personal files and did a full restore - there were no system restore points to turn back to. His lappy is all hunky dory now but an age of windows updates to get through... BTW - are you on Kiwibiker and did you have a BMS CS650? I still ride one of those and still enjoy it! Yep, that was me on Kiwibiker - sold the BMW F650CS and bought a Suzuki Goose, but just sold that a few months ago too. First time without a bike in about 13 years! Just struck this same problem again and a system restore is doing diddly-squat. I've tried twice, with two different restore points and while I have the control panel, the only drive showing is the CD/DVD drive - not the four photo ports the computer has (although it did recognise the pen drive when I plugged that in). I can probably load the photos using the USB cables but it's a pain in the proverbial. Roll on the contract I'm working on finishing and I will buy a new computer! |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1196286 | 2011-05-13 11:05:00 | Bad sectors/corruption on your HDD? | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1196287 | 2011-05-14 01:24:00 | Bad sectors/corruption on your HDD? Sorry, not even sure what that means (not a computer person here!), but when I booted the computer this morning, everything was fine again. I don't know what's causing the problem but it's the second time it's done it and I am getting a tad fed up because at the time, nothing seems to work to restore it. I am still keen to get a Mac, but will probably talk to a few knowledgeable people first before I do anything. |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1196288 | 2011-05-14 01:55:00 | These may help you www.pcstats.com www.ehow.com en.wikipedia.org (I presented that possibility in my previous post as a guess, but strongly recommend you do a hard drive error check :)). Where bad sectors become an issue is when previously usable sectors become damaged due to disk error. Any data on these sectors is in danger of being corrupted or destroyed. The operating system has no way of automatically compensating for this loss, potentially leading to data corruption on a larger scale and system instability if the affected data was crucial. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1196289 | 2011-05-14 02:38:00 | Run this support.kaspersky.com See if finds any rootkits. It looks like this error can also be caused by a rootkit |
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