Computer won't run any programs and system restore keeps failing

FreestoneDallas said:

Kaktussoft said:

Are you system files corrupt?

Code:

sfc  /scannow  /offbootdir=c:\  /offwindir=c:\windows

SFC /SCANNOW : Run in Command Prompt at Boot

I did this. It says that corrupted files were found but that some of them could not be fixed.

Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log.

Post x:\windows\logs\cbs\cbs.log
and c:\windows\logs\cbs\cbs.log

One of them has the details

from another thread that tells CBS.LOG isn't created in recovery environment:

For future Googlers, I ran into this same problem and was able to solve it: you can redirect the log by using an environment variable. I'm my case, I did

set WINDOWS_TRACING_LOGFILE=C:\TEMP\CBS.log

Before running sfc. Also the recovery console doesn't have findstr, but you can easily use find instead to extract relevant entries from the log, like so:

md C:\TEMP
find "[SR]" C:\TEMP\CBS.log > C:\TEMP\sfcdetails.txt

There, now you have a log! I hope the hours I spent on this help someone else.

Kaktussoft said:

Perform a chkdsk as well, so:
chkdsk /f C:

if C is windows driveletter in recovery environment
check other disks as well

no disk errors?

FreestoneDallas said:

Kaktussoft said:

Are you system files corrupt?

Code:

sfc  /scannow  /offbootdir=c:\  /offwindir=c:\windows

SFC /SCANNOW : Run in Command Prompt at Boot

I did this. It says that corrupted files were found but that some of them could not be fixed.

Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log.

So a very crucial file has been damaged. Can you press F8 at startup and boot in "safe mode". Tell me exact what happens.