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Greg,
I am unable to run malware bytes. When window starts up, normally or in safe mode, the win 7 screen appears ( sometimes with an error message that a .dll file is missing, sometimes not) but non of the desktop icons work. When I go to the windows icon in the lower left corner I just get the blue spinnin circle. Nothing works.
I will run the tests you recommended this evening. The drive with windows on it is detects in the bios. The dell diagnostics software dected and tested the drive ( a sdd drive) and it tested ok.
I will also disconnect my other 2 internal data drives and try the scndsk and chkdsk again.