PLEASE HELP!!! I have spent over 10 hours trying

gregrocker said:

When you get it set up where you want, but before you do any (unnecessary IMO) tweaking, suggest you save a Win7 Backup Image to a primary formatted partition and external. This covers poss HD failure of either, and makes reinstalls never again necessary - just reimage the HD or a replacement flawlessly in 15-20 minutes.

FYI, re-reading the thread the only mistake I notice is found here:

skylinepigeon said:

X:\sources> comes up

and i type chkdsk/f

but it says,

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected

I should have noticed you missed a space before the /f

Sometime in the near future, I'd run a chkdsk /f to be confident of your file system after all of that.

You can also mark this thread solved using button at the top of the page.

I couldn't find a solved button, so I reported the post as solved to a moderator.

I hope my experience can help others who have the misfortune of having this error pop up.

awesome skylinepigeon! i'm gonna try memtest and see what i come up with.