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StephanP:
I ran the chkdsk which came up with a number of bad sectore. See other thread.

But I also worked on replacng those missing and corrupted files.

* I discovered that my netbook has the same windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit version as my inlaw's PC
* So I took the missing and corrupted files from that netbook and copied them to the problematic PC using Take ownership
* After that, WR Pre-Scan continues to report that some .mum files are corrupted
* On my netbook though, they are not seen as corruptedAny experience with this?

Meanwhile, I've used the Repair All function and this helped getting rid of these nasty Red Warning Crosses in Windows Update. Giving Windows Update another try, it figured something is wrong and suggested that I run a Fix-It, which in its turn reported having fixed some stuff.
Currently, there are no error messages running Windows Update, but it gets stuck at downloading at 5%.

Apologies for intermixing two remedy trajectories.

Shane:
Bad sectors means bad drive, and only more bad sectors are going to happen. Which is why you had corrupt files.

It is time to backup the data and replace the drive :wink:

Shane

StephanP:
Thanks for the advice.
Data is already on an automatic backup schedule.
I guess, it'll be a fresh install of Windows on the new harddrive. Little point in moving/transfering a corrupted windows system.
Sigh.....

Shane:
Correct. Before you do make sure to download the network drivers for the system and same them to another disk. That way after you install windows you can install the network drivers and have internet access and then you can grab all the rest :-)

Shane

jraju:
Hi, Stephan
                       please edit the first post and mark it as solved. Closed may mean that the topic has been closed without solution. Pl

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