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Unstable system scannow returns problems not fixed. What next?
I found a very old thread and followed suggestion to post new. So here goes.
Over the last few days I have experienced a pronounced slowdown on my Lenovo Win 7 SP1 machine. Tried a lot of thing ending with running “sfc scannow” from cmd prompt with this return: “Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log”
I cannot open this file even following a suggestion I found on another site which was to enter the following at the prompt:
“findstr/c: “[SR]”%windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log>”%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt”
I find a file with the name sfcdetails.txt but it is empty. AND I am lost. I am completely and totally incompetent to proceed. Can someone please advise what all this means and what I should do now?
BACKGROUND:
Don’t know how much background, if any, would be helpful, so briefly the problems developed beginning with windows (particularly while in Firefox) closing unexpectedly; then when trying to wake up PC would see a dos screen with message to the effect “to reboot and select proper boot device. . .” Then yesterday morning when I would shut down I would select F10 so I could select the proper boot device, and PC would start then go to the same “reboot and select message (“R&S”). At this point I would have to turn the PC off and back on in order to initiate a boot. Then after a few more attempts PC would come up running CHKDSK. The first time this happened CHKDSK ended with message to effect that wasn’t enough space to repair $I30 at a particular address. After a few more attempts when turn on, go to F10 and would return a blinking cursor (_). At this point I thought of a reason for this behavior and disconnected an newly attached external drive. At this point I was able to boot up properly and I thought all was well. That is not the case.