This Is Not A Name
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Last night I was running Spybot Search and Destroy and it crashed. Suddenly, explorer crashed, too, and I couldn't restart it from the task manager. I restarted my computer and none of my startbar icons would work. I would press them and nothing would happen, or I'd get an error message saying something about invalid parameters and asking me if I wanted to delete the icon or shortcut. Same thing happens in safe mode. Last Known Good Configuration doesn't help, either.
I inserted my Windows 7 Ultimate Edition install disc and repaired my registry. Didn't fix the problem.
Something that struck my eye was when Windows 7 searches for Hard Drives that have versions of Windows installed on it, it listed my C:// drive as drive E://.
From the Windows 7 Install Disc Boot screen I opened the command prompt, used the Diskpart and List volume commands and all of my drive names were wrong. I figured this might be causing the problem, so I re-named all of my drives back to their correct names. I restarted the computer and the problem still isn't fixed. So, I tried opening the command prompt from the Windows 7 Install Disc Boot Screen again and do the list volume command again and all my drives were mixed up again.
At this point, I figure that using the Windows 7 boot disc to run the command prompt is gumming things up so I run Safe Mode with Command Prompt and use the Diskpart and List volume commands and all of my drive names are right, but my C drive is not listed.
Can somebody tell me what is going on here? I'm at a total loss. It's rather inconvenient as that the affected computer is my work computer and I can't do anything with it now. None of the icons anywhere work at all. Not even the "control panel" or the "my computer" icons. Absolutely none of them.
The motherboard on the affected computer has Splashtop(A Unix based OS that usually comes installed as a read only program on motherboards. Sort of like how a BIOS works, but it's a fully functional OS.) , and I can view all of the files on my C drive perfectly with no problem from Splashtop, so I don't think my drive is dead or lost, otherwise I wouldn't be able to view all of my folders and files.
I inserted my Windows 7 Ultimate Edition install disc and repaired my registry. Didn't fix the problem.
Something that struck my eye was when Windows 7 searches for Hard Drives that have versions of Windows installed on it, it listed my C:// drive as drive E://.
From the Windows 7 Install Disc Boot screen I opened the command prompt, used the Diskpart and List volume commands and all of my drive names were wrong. I figured this might be causing the problem, so I re-named all of my drives back to their correct names. I restarted the computer and the problem still isn't fixed. So, I tried opening the command prompt from the Windows 7 Install Disc Boot Screen again and do the list volume command again and all my drives were mixed up again.
At this point, I figure that using the Windows 7 boot disc to run the command prompt is gumming things up so I run Safe Mode with Command Prompt and use the Diskpart and List volume commands and all of my drive names are right, but my C drive is not listed.
Can somebody tell me what is going on here? I'm at a total loss. It's rather inconvenient as that the affected computer is my work computer and I can't do anything with it now. None of the icons anywhere work at all. Not even the "control panel" or the "my computer" icons. Absolutely none of them.
The motherboard on the affected computer has Splashtop(A Unix based OS that usually comes installed as a read only program on motherboards. Sort of like how a BIOS works, but it's a fully functional OS.) , and I can view all of the files on my C drive perfectly with no problem from Splashtop, so I don't think my drive is dead or lost, otherwise I wouldn't be able to view all of my folders and files.