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dual boot system (XP & Win 7-64) 7 reboot corrupts disk
Help! I have a dual boot system (XP & Win 7-64) with the Win 7 installed 2nd. I set it up to migrate away from XP.
When I reboot the system from Win 7 it restarts and then immediately upon log-on I get a series of errors that the disk is corrupt (most applications trying to load & error 55 in event viewer). If I restart into win 7, dskchk /f runs as scheduled but is unable to repair the file structure (something about MFT unable to be written to). When I to choose XT from the boot menu Chkdsk /f runs and repairs the disk. At log-in I choose to restart computer and boot into win 7, then it starts up and runs as expected. Except for occasionally it reboots itself (about once a week) with Windows Kernel event ID 41 error "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first" forcing me to choose XT at boot menu so chkdsk can do it’s thing.
I no longer need XT and would like to get rid of it; how can I do that safely without starting over from scratch? Will getting rid of XP solve the chkdsk problem?
I have an identical dual boot system on another computer and it has none of these problems.