So what now, system restore points are system clutter, removed by System Mechanic to free up space? When I tried to do a system restore to a date before I installed System Mechanic, I found that NONE of the restore points worked (I tried five different restore points). System Mechanic's on disk-checking software showed no problem with the hard drive, but on next restart, I was back having to watch the boot-up to try and cancel the file system consistency checking before it started.
To see if it was a RAM problem, I ran motherboard testing software a full night, found there was no problem with the computer's memory. To see if it was a virus, I updated my Norton security definitions and ran a full system scan, no problems. I have not been able to get any response from Iolo since, even after suggesting I would go public with my story, so I guess Iolo wants you to know this. I sent an e-mail to Iolo tech support, which gave me an irrelevant (probably computer-generated) response. The only way to get the system to actually boot into Windows, was to be there and cancel the file system consistency check before it began. It did however set a switch to make the computer endlessly repeat Windows file system consistency checking on startup, which kept bombing at the 2% mark of the "free space check" then rebooting again. This utility made no difference in boot up time. I installed System Mechanic 8.5 on My Windows XP Home Edition system because I was dissatisfied with "slow" boot up times. I wrote an email to Iolo and got an totally bogus automated answer, telling me I probably had hardware problems and that I should contact the Compaq support.
So I had to reinstall XP, then I used File Scavenger to save what's left of my files to an eksternal drive, which took a good 20 hours but restored amazingly 98% of the 80Gb I had! SM deleted my system restore points too!Īlso tried Active's boot disk that told me I had a critical system boot error. I tried booting from the original Windows XP cd just to get the message that a system repair was not possible, only a complete install that would delete all files on partition. No Windows, no text, no blue screen, no startup beep.
I ran the SM's one-click system cleanup, clicked "yes" to reboot, and then on startup nothing happened but getting a blinking marker in upper left corner on a black screen - and that's it! Could not even get in to safe mode! I had same problems like Arke, and exactly like danho001 says.
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