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*URGENT* System restore fail, Device manager wiped out, Many more.
Hi all,
I am having an urgent problem with my HP Pavilion Dv6,
I'll start from the beginning:
I am currently running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, and I encountered a problem today with scanning using the printer (Printing was alright). I can only remember vaguely as I thought it some kind of connection error, I was using a USB cable and it was working find earlier. Spent hours googling to no avail, so I decided to use System Restore to restore to yesterday where it was working perfectly. So when the laptop started the process through -Control Panel> Recovery> Open system restore it logged out and everything, but hung at initializing for about 40 minutes, I googled that with another laptop and 99% of them said I should turn on my laptop with the button, then try the System Restore in the boot options when choosing the Repair Computer option. Guess what! That also didn't work .
Well I started windows normally after the second power off, turned on without any problems, but then realized in the taskbar it shows the Ethernet wire connection for internet where I am connected wirelessly, I check my network adapters through Network & Sharing centre and the adapters are missing. I start panicking and instantly check device manager, its blank (Plug and Play is on). At that point I'm pissed off when I remember that when I started the laptop again, ATI gave me a message that no drivers were found. Have all my drivers been deleted? If my network adapters are missing, how am I connecting to the net? I also checked msconfig, tried a clean boot (Hopeless), but also noticed many Microsoft services are stopped. I just tried to scan again now to get an error message but the printer was not found, I figured this was from deleted devices?
PLEASE HELP, I have my exams coming around the corner and I need my laptop in shape.
Thanks,
-ParadoXeX
*Edit: I just saw this and it looked weird, when I did System restore, It had my C: drive ticked, but there was another C: and it said drive not detected or a similar message. (System Restore has worked in the past).
Last edited by ParadoXeX; 28 Jul 2012 at 18:21. Reason: Addition of Information