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Clean install of Windows 7 from Windows8.1-problems opening everything
Hello,
I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 SP1 from Windows 8.1 using an official version of windows 7 on my Lenovo U530 Touch Ideapad. I am new to advanced technical knowledge with PCs and have just switched from a Mac so please forgive my ignorance, but I thought I backed-up my computer properly in windows 8 but realized after I wiped my hard drive that i didn't back it properly. I only backed up my windows 8 data. I didn't back up anything else that was pre-installed on the computer (once again, please forgive me if I'm not using the correct lingo).
So once I got windows 7 installed I downloaded all the drivers from Lenovo's site and it was working properly until I started installing windows updates. I was prompted for a reboot pretty soon after I started installing the updates. So i rebooted (in retrospect i should have waited, but it was a windows update window that prompted me for a reboot) when my computer started back up I couldn't get update to start, couldn't get control panel to open, and everything was very slow. Then i tried shutting down and there was a black screen with just my mouse icon showing. It sat like that for about 20 minutes and i forced shut down. I tired opening in safe mode and trying to restore to an earlier point and I can't even get anything (control panel/computer) to open in Safe mode.It seems to boot up fine but when i try to open anything it either takes forever (20mins+), freezes up, or just sits there like i never clicked on anything.
I thought it might be a driver issue or a .Net Framework issue, so I have been trying to get back to the restore point of right before I started to install all the drivers, so I got it to start the restore process and it sat in "preparing to restore your computer" for 50 mins then said system restore has failed. try again ( I didn't get the exact language there, I believe there was an error code). When I tried again i got "There was an unexpected error: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFF) Please close system restore and try again"
I'm not sure what to do...
Any help is greatly appreciated! And please let me know what additional information I can provide that might help.
Thanks.