Dr Web And Macrium Reflect Don't Work Anymore

[Daffy D]

I have XP Pro with SP3.

Recently I added an extra hard drive and for the last couple of days have been rearranging files and general tidying up of the system.

All seemed to be well till I tried to make a backup of the new setup with the free Macrium Reflect. I have been using Reflect for long time and never had a problem, so was surprised when this time after I had set the partition to copy and then the save location the program started as normal "checking volume "C" thought about it for a while then shut down and re-boot.

I tried several times carefully checking the settings but each time the program would re-boot and not make a back-up. Looking at the save location it had made a folder with the usual Reflect icon but the contents were 0.

I downloaded the latest version of Reflect thinking it may be a corrupt file but the problem was still the same.

I then tried a back-up using Acrons and that worked perfectly.

The other strange problem is with Dr Web. Tried to scan and got "Some files could not be created.Please close all applications, reboot Windows and restart this installation" Naturally tried several times with the same negative result. Downloaded the latest version of Dr Web but still the same error message.

I tried both Reflect and Dr Web in safe mode and they worked fine. So something is going on with the full Windows that stops these two programs from functioning.

I don't think I have a virus as all the other programs I have tried so far work OK. Have done scans with Ad-Aware - Spybot - Malwrebytes - CCleaner - A-Squared - all of which worked OK and showed no infection.

I have a feeling it's something to do with a corrupt system file so tried a Windows repair. Booted from the installation disk and chose the repair option that comes after the license agreement page.

Everything seemed to be going fine till it came to the "Installing Windows" "Installing devices" part with "Will complete in approx 39 min" When the progress bar was about 70% done the system shut down and re-booted with "Setup is being Restarted" message.

After this happened about six or seven times I decided it was not going to work and gave up.

I think there must be some connection between these things, some corrupt or missing file within Windows.

Is it fixable without a total clean install?