Recent content by emace

Thanks Saga Lout. My issue was on an older HP desktop system which I had upgraded from Vista to Win8. No VAIO software on my system. Pure Win8 had been working great for months. When my system mysteriously wouldn't boot, I had the Refresh option as one of my windows repair options. so I think...

I had the exact same problem and same symptoms. Wouldn't boot, did the refresh, which wiped installed apps from the system. I could boot to windows and log in but couldn't access my C: drive (where windows was installed) but I could access other drives no problem. Hard drive is fine as was able...