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Why didn’t your recovery instructions work?

Q Spurred on by your comments to Morley Pecker in Issue 615’s Problems Solved (page 67), I attempted to update the recovery drive I created a few years ago. However, I saw a message telling me that it couldn’t be done, because some required files were missing. What did I do wrong?

Paul Dredge

Nothing, but this is probably the result of corrupted files on your system. The System File Checker tool

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