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Ok. This morning I ran chkdsk /r because last night I couldn’t install Malwarebyte’s Anti Malware because I had corrupt files. The first thing I tried to do this morning was install it. I still couldn’t because I had corrupt files. Also after running chk dsk this morning it wiped out my email settings again. This sucks. I never had these problems when I was running the RC version.
I ran a scan of the partition that has Windows 7 on it with Malwarebyte’s from XP and it came up clean. I am going to format the drive and do a clean install. This will be the third time I have done this.

Ok. This morning I ran chkdsk /r because last night I couldn’t install Malwarebyte’s Anti Malware because I had corrupt files. The first thing I tried to do this morning was install it. I still couldn’t because I had corrupt files. Also after running chk dsk this morning it wiped out my email settings again. This sucks. I never had these problems when I was running the RC version.
I ran a scan of the partition that has Windows 7 on it with Malwarebyte’s from XP and it came up clean. I am going to format the drive and do a clean install. This will be the third time I have done this.

I did uninstall PSP and ran chkdsk /r again. Event viewer shows no errors this time. However the log show I have had over 57,000 errors in the last 24 hrs.
Here is a screen shot of some of the errors I mentioned in my last post:
One other strange thing happened this time. I went to open Mozilla Thunderbird to check my email and I had to set up my account again. It was as if this was the first time I had used it. Very weird.

I installed version X2 also. It seemed to install fine but a message popped up that there was an update for X2. i tried downloading it from the message, as there was a link but nothing happened. I went to the Corel site and downloaded what I assumed, dumb on my part, assuming, was the same update. It was after trying to install this update that I got all the errors. I had changed the power options prior to this.
I just booted Windows 7 and event viewer said I already had 20 errors they are 455, 488, 1006, 7042.7040, 9000, 3030, and 8211 errors. Just what exactly is going on here?
Also I just got a message form Action Center that Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender both report that they are turned off. I am unable to start them.

I installed Corel Paint Shop Pro and then tried to install an update. I got a message about not having the program installed or the wrong version for the up date or the wrong version of the update. I rebooted and looked at event viewer and there were about a 1000 55 errors . the next two time I rebooted Chkdsk /r ran. I havent checked it this afternoon yet to see what happens now.
The Corel website says Paint Shop pro is compatible with Windows 7. Soo why the errors and chkdsk run?

I have a lot of 55 errors too. I will try your suggestion for power settings.

I read the log and the thing that stood out was this statement ” Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.” yet everything is running smoothly now. Did just running chkdsk /r fix the problem even though windows found no problems?

I ran Windows 7 version of chkdsk /r I think. I checked “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”. It seems to have worked because so far everything is running smoothly.
I know chkdsk creates a log, but I don’t know where to look for it. I would like to see what it says.

It runs chkdsk almost every time Windows 7 starts. I don’t know about the chkdsk/r. Why would the system run chkdsk and not repair it?

This is more than a Firefox issue. I checked the event viewer and it is full of error messages. In the system log there are very many where the source is ntfs. the event id is 55 and the task category is(2).
In the details box the message is “the file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility. This is a brand new hard drive. Windows XP is on another partition and is running perfectly, What is the problem with Windows 7?

This is a laptop, Dell Inspiron E 1505. There is only one hard drive to boot from. I have the two OSes on two separate hard drives. I just swap them. I am not really too concerned about what was on the Windows7 partition. I didn’t have anything important on it as I was just trying it out. I just would like to know what happened so it doesn’t boot.

The options in BIOS are boot from HDD or boot from optical drive. I can only have one hard drive in the computer at a time

Here is the whole story. I have two hard drives for my laptop. on one of them I had XP Home and Windows 7 in a dual boot situation. This set up worked fine except I was having problems updating XP due to some SP3 problems. Microsoft sent me a new version of XP Pro because they sort of screwed up their advice for fixing my problem.
I installed this on the second hard drive. I decided after a couple of months that I didn’t need the home version of XP any longer. I wanted to switch Windows 7 to the smaller hard drive and put XP Pro on the bigger one. I imaged Pro and the Windows 7 partition. I assumed since 7 would boot I didn’t need the old XP partition. I then formatted the drive that had Home and 7 on it and copied the XP Pro image to this drive. It is working fine.
I the copied the Windows 7 image to the other hard drive after formatting it and got the NTLDR Missing message. I ran a repair of 7 and the NTLDR message isn’t there any more just a black screen with a blinking cursor.
Another note this is the RC version of Windows 7. I wanted to try it out first so there isn’t or wasn’t anything important that would have been lost if this isn’t fixable. However I no longer have the installation disk as I cleaned out my “technology drawer” and didn’t think I would need it so I tossed it.
Is this a hopeless situation?

I’m not sure if it was or not. XP was on the drive first but Windows 7 booted first.