Cannot select a drive for system restore.

Question

My windows 7 computer suddenly will not boot. It attempts repair, which fails, then asks me if I want to restore to an earlier restore point. The next screen shows several restore points. When I select one(it doesn't matter which) it switches to a screen that shows my drives correctly(including noting that C:\ is a system drive) but it will not let me select a drive no matter what I do. HELP 

Also I cannot access Safe Mode no matter how long I press F8.

My system is an Intel I7 2600K with only one operating system - Windows 7 64 bit Professional. Until this afternoon it worked fine. I have not installed any new software in the last 3 months and have made no changes to the configuration.

Answer 1

The System repair disk had the same end result as the installed repair routine. Everything proceeds normally until I get to the screen where I am supposed to select the drive to restore. The screen displays the correct drives in the correct order, and designates the proper drive as the system drive. I cannot however make a selection. The screen displays an alert stating that I must select the drive to restore but no matter what I do I cannot affect a selection. The only items on the page that function are the back button and the cancel button. The next button is grayed out as are the selection boxes for the drives.

Is there any other options than a complete reinstall of windows 7?

Answer 2

Someone else may have a different idea on how to fix it other than a reinstall.

Cheers.

Answer 3

Hi,

Using a Repair disk will often work when the built-in software won't.

Make your own System Repair Disk from the information in this Tutorial:

"How to Create a Windows 7 System Repair Disc"

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

"This will show you how to create a Windows 7 system repair disc to be able to use to boot to **system recovery options** to help recover your Windows 7 installation if you don't have a Windows installation disc, can't find your Windows installation disc, or can't access the recovery options provided by your computer manufacturer.

A system repair disc is not able to install Windows 7.

   Note

If you are unable to boot your Windows 7 to create a Windows 7 System Repair Disc, then you could create it on another computer to use on your computer."

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Then use that Disk for the System Recovery Options:

"System Recovery Options"

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

"How to Run a Startup Repair in Windows 7"

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

Cheers.