No, there's not. And I just went to the reset this PC menu after booting from DVD, and the reset failed. Bad media, or ???

I meant recovery, not restore ... in other words, reinstall Windows keeping my data in place.

Since there are no available restore points, is my best move to do a system restore, or what would you suggest? And thanks for the comforting news on the CRC's! :D

Again, thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately I have no restore points; the last time I tried to restore the restoration failed and the system removed them all. HDTune health reports some CRC...

Got an "unexpected_store_exception" BSOD.

Many thanks for the quick reply! I've disabled Fast Startup; I'll let you know how things go!

I've been getting BSOD's periodically ever since installing a trial version of Bit Defender last Sunday. Going back with a pre-install restore point did not help. Tried that again today, but the...