I put the drive back into the machine it came from. Same issue.
I don't use system restore.
5 minutes ago I was thinking I'd have to consider buying Windows 10 and just low level formatting the drive from my main rig and starting all over. I only have 2mb download so whatever I end up doing it'll take me till the end of the evening 6-8hrs worth to get everything installed again.. I upgraded from Windows 7 64b Pro.
I can't log into photobucket for some reason.. might be from a browser security add-on. I wanted to upload the photo I took with my phone to post with my post.