CHKDSK at boot time after Windows 7 upgrade

CHKDSK at boot time after Windows 7 upgrade

I recently upgraded by Windows XP desktop to Windows 7 using the Home Premium Upgrade installation DVD. My original plan was to reformat the boot disk during installation, however, during the installation process that wasn't an option (I'm assuming this is because the old installation of Windows is needed during the installation process). The upgrade went fine.

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"That definitely sounds to me like genuine filesystem corruption, though it may not be caused by any physical defect on the drive. Unplanned shutdowns are the most common cause of this, and the effects do not always show up immediately as the problem could be somewhere were the system doesn't touch in day-to-day operation. While the NTFS filesystem is relatively safe against this sort of thing (it journals filesystem metadata, like ext3 does by default under Linux, so some corruption due to unplanned events can be repaired) it does still sometimes happen.

So I would test the drive more thoroughly before chucking it. I suggest installing some software that can read and monitor the drive's SMART parameters (if the drive does have a physical problem, these will probably show some indication of it) and can initiate the drive's own self test routines.

Even if you keep the drive, I would suggest a reformat and reinstall at this point. Repairing a significantly corrupt filesystem is a losing game (you can never be sure everything is 100% fine)."