When I booted up my laptop this morning, Windows asked me to install some routine maintenance work/driver updates. Since it does this all the time, I clicked 'yes,' thinking that nothing could go wrong. However, five minutes later, when I was trying to defrag the computer, it froze and then refused to start up again. I let it run the Startup Repair test, and it told me there was no way to fix the issue. Then I tried every other option I could think of, including the Windows memory diagnostics tool (it's not an issue with that) and booting up in Safe Mode (it won't; it begins to load windows files, but then just takes me back to the Startup Repair test and runs it ad nauseum).
Now, normally I would just restore it to the last known working configuration. Trouble is, I installed Skyrim a few days ago and really, really, really don't want to lose my save file. This would be a non-issue if I could just get it to work in Safe Mode, grab my save file out of the Steam folder, and then restore it to the last known working configuration. Does anyone know of a possible solution? I would be jubilant if someone could help me out here...
(As I kinda hinted above, I think the problem is either with the drivers that were just installed or using Piriform Defraggler to defrag the hard drive. Could either one of those be a legit problem? I'm not very knowledgeable about fixing computers, especially when I can't even get to the desktop, so maybe that's not it at all...)
Now, normally I would just restore it to the last known working configuration. Trouble is, I installed Skyrim a few days ago and really, really, really don't want to lose my save file. This would be a non-issue if I could just get it to work in Safe Mode, grab my save file out of the Steam folder, and then restore it to the last known working configuration. Does anyone know of a possible solution? I would be jubilant if someone could help me out here...
(As I kinda hinted above, I think the problem is either with the drivers that were just installed or using Piriform Defraggler to defrag the hard drive. Could either one of those be a legit problem? I'm not very knowledgeable about fixing computers, especially when I can't even get to the desktop, so maybe that's not it at all...)