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System Problems -SFC Found Issues and Unable to Fix
I have been reading your thread on doing a "repair install" within windows 7. Below is what I have been going through, but my real question is that my system shipped with vista 64, and Dell then sent me an upgrade disk to Win 7 64. I assume this is nothing majorly different than a normal upgrade disk you could buy over the counter, but I wanted to know if I am able to try this repair/install with Dell's Win 7 upgrade disk. IS this the best course of action or is there another suggestion?
I have been having some issues recently with Windows Update in that it seems each time I update my Windows 7 64 bit system (from updates from Microsoft) when the computer restarts it crashes my system to the dreaded blue screen. saying there was a problem with startup. The computer tries startup repair and is always unable to fix the problem. The only way I have been able to recover is through Comodo Time Machine to the point before I install the updates, and things are fine. I restore to a snapshot, then I once again install the updates, and the updates install with no problem (I know, weird.) I am beginning to think there is a serious problem on my machine. I am running Norton Internet Security 2011 and have ran virus scans with no issues. After I restore from Comodo and then reinstall updates, my system runs fine with no issues.
I went into windows update and performed a repair on windows update, and it says it fixed something. But when I go back into it, and try to repair it again, I get the same message (I.E. it fixed something) I never get a message where it says "there are no problems."
I ran a memory test and found no issues (although when the computer restarted from the test, I had to walk away from it when windows rebooted and there were no messages on my screen saying it failed).
Then I ran the sfc/scannow and it says it found corrupt files but it was unable to fix them. I tried again and same response. My questions are, is this the best next step to take? Also, am I able to do this, as my computer was originally installed with Windows Vista 64, and I upgraded the OS via a Dell provided Windows 7 64 upgrade disk. Will a repair install work from that Dell Windows 7 upgrade disk, or should I not attempt it?
Thanks for the help and info in advance.