Logan had two power outages yesterday in quick succession. Her PC had barely got back up from the first outage when it was knocked over again by the second. I won’t bore you with tales of the 8 hours we spent trying to get it to load windows or even safe mode, it was a pain the aris. In the end we got it running on a CD and told it to restore the system to a recent restore point. It immediately announced that the file system was corrupted (no shit?) and demanded to spend several more hours counting several hundred thousand files and several more hours counting several hundred million clusters. Needless to say, we got bored and went to bed.

When we got up again, we found a message that proudly proclaimed that it was ready to do the system restore. We picked  a restore point, hit OK and waited. The wait was refreshingly short this time. After a mere 20 seconds we were greeted with this message:

System restore did not complete successfully. Your system files and settings were not changed.

Details:

System restore failed due to an unspecified error.
Catastrophic Failure (0x8000FFFF)