swaykills
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Deleted PATH and System Restore Error. Please help
I'll just assume that we have all seen this post, or had the issue our selves, at some point. I too was not lazy about this and searched Google, bing, and every forum on earth (including this one) for a solution. I was told, WRONGLY of course, by a web site that the Environment Variable PATH(all caps) was different than path(all lower-case), SO, trying to force Java to work for the android SDK, I added a PATH/blah/blah/blah/java stuff. Which, of course, ended up re-writing the original path(lower-case) that existed. NOW, I am freaking out because I have no issues yet but have a strong feeling one day my new laptop will commit suicide because of this issue. I have tried Recovery at least 10 times. I tried once after I caused the issue. Then googled harder. I have completely uninstalled (using the McAfee tool) my trial of McAfee, I uninstalled Avast(first manually, then using their tool and deleting the registry for it), I went as far as uninstalling CCleaner and Malwarebytes to make sure it was not them. I tried Recovery in Safe Mode, in Clean Boot mode, and then tried the two together! Still, I cannot seem to get a System Restore to work. This laptop (asus) was "owned" by another person for a month before me. They started it, looked at, couldn't figure it out (older person), and gave it to me.
When I do the Recovery (system restore) I get the whole-
Recovery Unsuccessful error 0x80070005, a file could not be found, that it may be an AV program stopping it.
I also know that this is just a cop-out by Microsoft and that the issue can be caused by nearly anything. I've tried everything I can think of. I was about to use the Refresh or (cant remember name) Remove all Files And Reinstall Windows options, but of course this laptop didn't come with a Windows 8 disc, so I was too scared to try. Any help would be amazingly appreciated before I call the "expert" up to fix it for me. I am computer literate, but only to a point. If you share any advanced options, I must ask, that you are very detailed in your descriptions to help me.
Hoping for a fix, but to be honest, from searching for 6 hours, I have my doubts.
Just as a side, the path variable was not the standard windows 8 variable, it contained something about /intel/ and a bunch of stuff I didn't read closely. And I have learned my lesson. So if i can get help with a working System Restore or a simple enough to understand ISO download and reinstall, either is fine. I've only had the computer for 2 days and am happy to just re-download everything o have on it. Thanks in advance.
Sorry if double post, internet froze.
EDIT- For some reason the latop only had a single restore point, yesterday after i installed Avast, just after i updated to 8.1. I assumed it would have created one earlier since it was owned for a month prior but it did not.
I'll just assume that we have all seen this post, or had the issue our selves, at some point. I too was not lazy about this and searched Google, bing, and every forum on earth (including this one) for a solution. I was told, WRONGLY of course, by a web site that the Environment Variable PATH(all caps) was different than path(all lower-case), SO, trying to force Java to work for the android SDK, I added a PATH/blah/blah/blah/java stuff. Which, of course, ended up re-writing the original path(lower-case) that existed. NOW, I am freaking out because I have no issues yet but have a strong feeling one day my new laptop will commit suicide because of this issue. I have tried Recovery at least 10 times. I tried once after I caused the issue. Then googled harder. I have completely uninstalled (using the McAfee tool) my trial of McAfee, I uninstalled Avast(first manually, then using their tool and deleting the registry for it), I went as far as uninstalling CCleaner and Malwarebytes to make sure it was not them. I tried Recovery in Safe Mode, in Clean Boot mode, and then tried the two together! Still, I cannot seem to get a System Restore to work. This laptop (asus) was "owned" by another person for a month before me. They started it, looked at, couldn't figure it out (older person), and gave it to me.
When I do the Recovery (system restore) I get the whole-
Recovery Unsuccessful error 0x80070005, a file could not be found, that it may be an AV program stopping it.
I also know that this is just a cop-out by Microsoft and that the issue can be caused by nearly anything. I've tried everything I can think of. I was about to use the Refresh or (cant remember name) Remove all Files And Reinstall Windows options, but of course this laptop didn't come with a Windows 8 disc, so I was too scared to try. Any help would be amazingly appreciated before I call the "expert" up to fix it for me. I am computer literate, but only to a point. If you share any advanced options, I must ask, that you are very detailed in your descriptions to help me.
Hoping for a fix, but to be honest, from searching for 6 hours, I have my doubts.
Just as a side, the path variable was not the standard windows 8 variable, it contained something about /intel/ and a bunch of stuff I didn't read closely. And I have learned my lesson. So if i can get help with a working System Restore or a simple enough to understand ISO download and reinstall, either is fine. I've only had the computer for 2 days and am happy to just re-download everything o have on it. Thanks in advance.
Sorry if double post, internet froze.
EDIT- For some reason the latop only had a single restore point, yesterday after i installed Avast, just after i updated to 8.1. I assumed it would have created one earlier since it was owned for a month prior but it did not.
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