image backup?

Cbarnhorst said:

Reboot and try again. That will probably release the handles on the files that something is trying to access.

i actually rebooted when i reinstalled my antivirus programs that i use.

you reply really fast dont ya?

Obviously I have way too much time on my hands. About to go to bed, though. Good luck with the rest of your project.

Cbarnhorst said:

Obviously I have way too much time on my hands. About to go to bed, though. Good luck with the rest of your project.

same here. gonna try one more thing then IM going to bed. This Husky needs sleep!

So after I deleted windows.old (disk cleanup didn't work so I did it manually) i went to do something else and one of my programs froze. I couldn't get task manager to work So I just rebooted. Here's where my bigger problems begin. I get past the Windows logo screen and I get stuck on a yellow-orangeish screen with a loading circle for what seems like forever. I get to the login screen and I login. Then my screen goes black and I only have my mouse cursor. I have a few solutions I'm gonna try but honestly I wish I would have just stuck with the non working apps build of win10 that I had.

See if you can run a hard drive test and memory test.

Well I'm in windows repair with cmd. Can I do it with that?


edit: i managed to boot to safe mode but when i try to access the file browser it says windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. ideas?