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System Restore, tells me ChkDisk, ChkDisk tells me System Restore
So, my computer froze this morning and I had to do a hard reboot. That caused a few odd problems in Firefox and, more importantly, seems to have upset Windows. The biggest symptom is that when I start any program from the Start Menu, even Microsoft programs like Calculator or System Restore, the "unknown publisher" dialogue pops up. It also sometimes makes 2 rapid high-pitched beeps. Something's obviously been damaged, so I thought a System Restore was in order.
When I try to do a System Restore, however, it tells me that it can't do it until I run a ChkDisk. I schedule one, reboot and it tells me that it can't perform ChkDisk until I use System Restore to restore the system to an earlier point. This isn't much help. I performed several malware tests just yesterday, and my computer was clean, so that's a less likely explanation than it might at first appear.
It's not, however, the first weirdness I've had with my drives. The automatic update before last caused my drive structure to rearrange itself (it now lists "System Reserved" as the B: drive in the "Computer" folder, and I had 2 SATA drives, one USB drive and one IDE drive, and the OS no longer sees the IDE drive, although the BIOS still does. It also counts "System Reserved" as part of the E: drive, which is a data drive, rather than the C: drive, which is the boot drive. And, before the update, that E: drive was my D: drive and the E: drive was the IDE drive that is now missing).
So, there's definitely weirdness going on. It shouldn't be a problem with any of the hardware, as much of my hardware, and this installation of Windows 7, are only 2-3 months old.