[savedbygrace]

Nope. When I do that, and click on System Restore, I see the hourglass pop up on my mouse cursor for maybe 5 seconds, then it goes away, and nothing loads. I see a little bit of drive activity (drive activity light on the case) while the hourglass is up, but then it ceases.

[Echo Talon]

If you have to "go nuclear" make sure you copy all of your important stuff..."pictures" "taxes" whatever to a CD, or a different drive/partition.

[AlBondigas]

If you can't > safe mode >Sys restore

Try > control panel >folder options> view tab >& uncheck ..hide protected op sys..

then launch Windows explorer & scroll to c:\system vol..info > rt click > properties > uncheck read only >apply
then check the dates & pick one to dbl click