system restart fails

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i go to system restart, choose date, and start it. computer restarts, but
before it goes to the sign in screen it goes to a blue screen with a plain
white windows icon at the top right of the screen and starts loading/testing
drives and it reads c: first and says that it is "dirty". then it tests the
rest of the drives and goes to sign in screen. i sign in, it loads settings,
then goes into windows restart screen and says that it was unable to restart
and that no changes have been made to your computer. it says to choose
another restart date but no matter what date i choose it has the same out
come. i also can no longer access "my computer" in start up icon.
 
vincevv said:
i go to system restart, choose date, and start it. computer restarts, but
before it goes to the sign in screen it goes to a blue screen with a plain
white windows icon at the top right of the screen and starts loading/testing
drives and it reads c: first and says that it is "dirty". then it tests the
rest of the drives and goes to sign in screen. i sign in, it loads settings,
then goes into windows restart screen and says that it was unable to restart
and that no changes have been made to your computer. it says to choose
another restart date but no matter what date i choose it has the same out
come. i also can no longer access "my computer" in start up icon.
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Do you mean system restore rather than system restart? Generally the
inability to do a restore means a problem with one or more restore
points. When that happens the only way around it is to turn off system
restore which removes all restore points, and then turn it back on. See
this link for some troubleshooting steps on system restore:

System Restore Fails
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html
 
Thanks. When i posted the problem i thought that was the only problem. People
who dont know how to use the computer use it. what happened was some one used
a registry cleaner and cleaned out important parts of the registry. I opened
the registry cleaner i thought was used and found the earliest back up. I
restored that back up. Then i was able to save, download, and do other
opperations You are normally able to do with a computer. I also had to
re-download windows media player from the microsoft site. Also when i
restored the back up it erased all the restore points in sytem restore and I,
with out hesitation, made a new restore point. Unfortunatlly some one has
either misplaced or stole my windows reboot or back up disk that kame with
this dell computer so if the registry is really messed up i cant fix it. It
works good right now but i have no way of telling if every thing is right
with it. There were two different registry cleaners used. Theres also no
telling that if or when i add more programs windows is still goin to act
right. If you can help or know anthing further assist me please do so.
 
vincevv said:
Thanks. When i posted the problem i thought that was the only problem. People
who dont know how to use the computer use it. what happened was some one used
a registry cleaner and cleaned out important parts of the registry. I opened
the registry cleaner i thought was used and found the earliest back up. I
restored that back up. Then i was able to save, download, and do other
opperations You are normally able to do with a computer. I also had to
re-download windows media player from the microsoft site. Also when i
restored the back up it erased all the restore points in sytem restore and I,
with out hesitation, made a new restore point. Unfortunatlly some one has
either misplaced or stole my windows reboot or back up disk that kame with
this dell computer so if the registry is really messed up i cant fix it. It
works good right now but i have no way of telling if every thing is right
with it. There were two different registry cleaners used. Theres also no
telling that if or when i add more programs windows is still goin to act
right. If you can help or know anthing further assist me please do so.
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It's impossible to tell you what might go wrong in the future and how to
fix it. Firstly you need to replace the system disk from Dell. Then
look into a drive imaging program. Image the system and save that image
to external media when it's working and take periodic images after that.
If the system gets messed up restore one of the images. There are a
variety of disk imaging programs - here is a list of some of them.

Norton Ghost 10
Acronis True Image
Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows
CasperXP
 
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