The corrupted Windows files were because of my hard drive. XD Every single mechanical hard drive out there has small "bad sectors" due to physical limitations of the material itself. I just happened to get a bad sector on a System32 file and that was throwing my computer out of whack. I had 12 bad sectors last year, and 52 fourteen months later. It's ~200 Kb of bad data, no big deal.JeffCvt wrote:This is why I now use Linux. Unless you mess around in the terminal using sudo commands, you can't mess it up. (Well, with Ubuntu anyway. I'm not sure about other distributions.) ((And I don't play games so not being able to play them isn't a big deal))Beagle wrote:Sorrow: Either I have a hard drive failure or corrupted Windows files. Running diagnostics at the moment.
Unless it is your hard drive. I believe your computer isn't that old though, correct? I'm not sure the average life of a mechanical hard drive, but I'm sure it shouldn't be failing (on a mechanical level at least).
Joy: I fixed it.