I did a system restore from a recent restore point. After rebooting, my laptop started normally, but then a message came up saying "Preparing Automatic Repair." After a few moments it said "Diagnosing your PC". Then a blue screen came up saying "Automatic Repair." There were two options, "Restart" and "Advanced Options". Restart didn't work (I tried several times), so eventually I tried the Advanced Options.
From Advanced Options, I went to "Troubleshoot," and then a different "Advanced options". From the Advanced Options screen, there were several choices that looked promissing; but almost all of them say I need to be an administrator and won't let me continue. To start with, I am an Administrator on my machine, but it says it can't find any Administrator accounts.
How can I get past this? My computer is useless and my only options seem to be refresh or reset. Why do I have to be an administrator to save my computer? Please someone tell me there's a way to do a "System Restore," bring up the "Command Prompt," or do "Startup Repair" without being an administrator. Those are the three options that require me being an Administrator.
I've never had a System Restore fail before and can't believe it did. :-(
