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One day, after a very brief brownout, I turned on my computer to
discover that several programs hung halfway through loading or
apparently loaded, but didn't respond to any commands, mouse click,
etc.
I had a recent Ghost 9 image. I restored. The same programs
didn't function properly.
I had an older Ghost 9 image which I had already successfully used
to restore the hard drive about a month ago. I restored this
image. Again, the same programs didn't function properly, and in
the same ways...
I tested memory (memtest), hard drive itself (Seatools), ran
chkdsk, etc. etc. I used two anti-virus scans and a spyware scan.
I also changed the hard drive itself. Nothing showed up. Seatools
(Seagates diagnostic tool), did indicate critical problem with NTFS
I finally used the restore CD that came with my computer (2.5 years
ago) and all is going smoothely, further indicating that it is
not/was not, a hardware issue.
The only thing I can imagine is that although I restored a Ghost
image, the disk was not completely cleaned and therefore, the same
problems kept coming back?
Is this possible?
Any suggestions? I'm horrified at the thought that this could
happen again and that my backup image wouldn't work.
TIA
Louise
One day, after a very brief brownout, I turned on my computer to
discover that several programs hung halfway through loading or
apparently loaded, but didn't respond to any commands, mouse click,
etc.
I had a recent Ghost 9 image. I restored. The same programs
didn't function properly.
I had an older Ghost 9 image which I had already successfully used
to restore the hard drive about a month ago. I restored this
image. Again, the same programs didn't function properly, and in
the same ways...
I tested memory (memtest), hard drive itself (Seatools), ran
chkdsk, etc. etc. I used two anti-virus scans and a spyware scan.
I also changed the hard drive itself. Nothing showed up. Seatools
(Seagates diagnostic tool), did indicate critical problem with NTFS
I finally used the restore CD that came with my computer (2.5 years
ago) and all is going smoothely, further indicating that it is
not/was not, a hardware issue.
The only thing I can imagine is that although I restored a Ghost
image, the disk was not completely cleaned and therefore, the same
problems kept coming back?
Is this possible?
Any suggestions? I'm horrified at the thought that this could
happen again and that my backup image wouldn't work.
TIA
Louise