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System restore not working after BSOD
Hi, I would need some advice with Win 7 system restore :)
A couple of days ago my laptop, a Sony Vaio, had a BSOD (it just flashed, I don't know what it said) after having woken up from hibernation. After that Windows didn't want to boot. So I went in RE to system restore and tried to restore it. I won't bore you with the details but after a lot of error messages I somehow managed to log in as admin and start rstrui. It turned out, I have two images. For one (my twice-a-week-instant-restore-point) I get the message that the image file is missing. When I try the other one (Windows Update on the same day as this happened, I don't know if this can be the cause. Well, either this or the laptop falling off a table some days before the BSOD.) I get an error message again, it says I should run chkdsk /R. Since I can use the command prompt I tried this but it was slow as hell. I mean there were like 450 000 pieces of data and it analysed one in 1 min.
So my question is. Do you think, I have other options than reinstalling the whole system? I have already done it once, like a year ago when the same thing happened, and I want to avoid it by all means having to do that again. It was an ordeal of two days and I didn't quite enjoy it.
I'm not in a hurry because I have dual boot and my Linux works just fine but I still would be thankful for some suggestions.
Thank you in advance :)