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Boggin:
Yes, I guess just Safe Mode will be okay for Win 7, but did you manage to stop the program ?

Wasatch Rebel:
Yes. I was able to stop it. I tried doing chkdsk /f and I got a message like this:
Chkdsk cannot be run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the nest time the system restarts? (Y/N) I typed Y. I'm not sure anything happened with regards to chkdsk when I restarted--even in Safe Mode.
For some reason my download of Malwarebytes still hasn't completed, so I haven't run that, but I did run Super Anti-Spyware before beginning, which I already had and updated it prior to running.  I tried twice to run the repairs with every box ticked, but it failed. Then I ran it again with just the boxes ticked listed above, plus 25 as well and it worked. I have rebooted after each attempt and I'm going to try running it again with all boxes checked.

Wasatch Rebel:
Oh, and after rebooting into Normal Mode, the message I was getting is gone. But I want to go ahead and run the whole program to fix anything else that might be lurking. I'm running the sfc /scannow again and then I'll reboot into safe mode and give it another go with all the boxes checked.

Boggin:
When performing a chkdsk /f or /r that message you get is normal and after the reboot you should get a message that a chkdsk has been scheduled and will execute on a countdown.

If you didn't see that then it didn't run.

When you boot into the advanced boot options, select Repair your computer and navigate to the Recovery Environment and select Command Prompt.

You can do a chkdsk from there where the machine doesn't have to dismount the volume and you will see it go through the three stages and it's report will remain on screen.

At the Command Prompt enter bcdedit |find "osdevice"

Then using the partition letter it gives, enter chkdsk x: /f where x is your partition letter.

That is a Pipe symbol before find and is the uppercase of \

Because you are booted outside of Windows, it doesn't always see the volume as in C:

Disregard the status code 50 at the end as that just means it cannot write a chkdsk report to the Event Viewer.

Did you try the MBAM download in Safe Mode with Networking ?

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