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Restore from Recovery Options - You Must Enable System Protection
W7 tower goes into a loop at startup so I went into Startup Repair. From the System Recovery Options screen I selected System Restore. It brings up a bunch of dates from 4/24 to 4/18 and prompts me to click an item.
I doesn't seem to matter what date I select - when it brings up the next page it always has a triangle with an exclamation point and the sentences You must always restore the drive that contains windows. Restoring other drives is optional.
Then in the rectangle below there's an empty check box with words Local Disk (C: System) under the heading Drive. Under the heading Status it says You must enable system protection on this drive. At the bottom of the page it has Back, Next and Cancel. Next is grayed out. I cannot put a check in the checkbox.
From the System Recovery Options I can select Command Prompt. If I navigate to the D: drive (which is where it thinks Windows is installed, and I run sfc /scannow I get a message There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart Windows and run SFC again.
Needless to say the restart accomplishes nothing.