Those errors may be related to your file system having errors. It could also be related to bad Windows files. You should run the disk check again for C: since it found bad clusters and had to make corrections to the file system.
Run SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker up to three times to fix all errors. Post back if it continues to show errors after a fourth run or if the first run comes back with no integrity violations.
Keep gong with writhziden on the hard drive tests and SFC command.
When done with that you can get the Intel RST driver for your laptop from Intel, I use it on my 4 year old laptop and it works fine. Just make sure your BIOS is set to AHCI or RAID and not IDE. The Intel Raid StorPort Driver indicates you have the BIOS set to 'RAID' or 'AHCI'.
The Intel RST driver replaces the old Intel Raid StorPort Driver.
Check you chipset at:
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology
Supported chipsets and controller hubs
Go to Device Manager, then 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers', you should see 'Intel(R) ICH9M-EM SATA AHCI Controller' or something similar.
If it doesn't say 'SATA AHCI controller' then your systemis set to IDE mode and this driver won't work.
If it is 'SATA AHCI controller', then download the Intel driver:
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology
Thanks guys for yout help!
@writhziden: i ran the SFC /SCANNOW command in elevated command prompt. I ran 4 times and did not turn up any results. It gave me the following message:
"Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."
One thing i did find odd though, was after the first time i ran it, the prompt that it brought me back to wasnt C:\Windows\system32> it brought me to C:\Windows\system32>"%LOCALAPPDATA%" which i thought was kind of weird. But other then that all four times i got the no integrity violations message.
i ran another hard drive scan.... here are the results... also ran the sfc /scannow again too with no errors
Code:Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)... 324096 file records processed. File verification completed. 1595 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 45 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)... 401780 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)... 324096 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 35 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 35 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 35 unused security descriptors. Security descriptor verification completed. 38843 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 34587224 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)... Read failure with status 0xc0000185 at offset 0x9c671e000 for 0x7000 bytes. Read failure with status 0xc0000185 at offset 0x9c6721000 for 0x1000 bytes. Read failure with status 0xc0000185 at offset 0x9c6722000 for 0x3000 bytes. Read failure with status 0xc0000185 at offset 0x9c6724000 for 0x1000 bytes. Windows replaced bad clusters in file 154091 of name \Windows\Prefetch\LOGONU~1.PF. 324080 files processed. File data verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)... 12173637 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete. Adding 2 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File. Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows has made corrections to the file system. 299526143 KB total disk space. 250281680 KB in 219392 files. 115316 KB in 38844 indexes. 16 KB in bad sectors. 434583 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 48694548 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 74881535 total allocation units on disk. 12173637 allocation units available on disk. Internal Info: 00 f2 04 00 c8 f0 03 00 f0 0b 07 00 00 00 00 00 ................ b4 05 00 00 2d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....-........... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer restarts.
That hard disk is accumulating bad sectors. Use HD Diagnostic to find the manufacturer of the hard disk and use the manufacturer's diagnostic tools found in that link to determine whether the drive is failing.
Also recommend backing up any important data ASAP.
my hard drive is a samsung but i cant get the tools for that drive because seagate bought samsung and the only tool that they did have is HUTIL which is not compatible with windows 7... and the alternate link in that thread you pasted says 404! not found...
You can run the seatools on it from Seagate. You won't be able to use it to repair the drive, but you can use it to check for errors.
Have you had any luck with HDD Regenerator?
I've never used it, actually.
Ahh... well i guess i need to just buy a new hard drive. On a side note... since i ran the Chkdsk thing a second time, my computer has been booting into windows very easily now with no flashing colors on taskbar and it also restarts really fast now and seems to be working well... hopefully it holds up for another month so that i can buy a new hard drive and just mirror it over...
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