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      10-12-2010
I was installing Office 2007 and got an message saying it couldn't finish installing because of an error on the drive. I try to run scandisk and it won't run because the drive is being used. I schedule it to run on startup and it starts to run and then gives me an error saying it cannot run because of a recent software installation, please restore from a restore point prior to installation. I try to run the restore point and it says it can't because there is an error on the hard drive. I ran WD diagnsostics and it says the drive is passes S.M.A.R.T. I don't know where to go from hre. Any ideas?
 
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      10-12-2010
Try chkdsk.

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CHKDSK x: /F /R
How to use CHKDSK (Check Disk)

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I tried chkdsk x: /F /r and it said I could not run that command . I needed to "elevate my privileges" I am logged in as an admin and I do not know what "elevate my privileges" means
 
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Oh right. You'll need to run the command prompt sa admin.

Type cmd in the start menu and right click on cmd.exe. Then select "Run as administrator" . If the location is "C:\Winows\system32" you can try again.
 
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Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7

1. Click on Windows 7 Start Button
2. Go to All Programs > Accessories
3. Now right on Command Prompt and select "Run as Administrator" from context menu
4. This should bring elevated command prompt mode with full Administrators rights.

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OK. I was able to get the elevated command prompt and ran chkdsk from the command line. It said it could not run chkdsk because the drive was locked. Did I want to run it at startup. I chose yes and rebooted. It then says it cannot run because of an error from a recently installed software package. Run a restore point. Which I cannot do because restore says there is an error on the drive. It does say there was an "unspecified error 766c6..." during running chkdsk. I do appreciate the help in geting this far. Any other ideas?
 
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Your going round in circles mate, do you have another Computer you can attach the HDD to, if so I would be inclined to clone over data then on that Computer download and run HD Speed its freeware and will check out the HDD.
 
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Your going round in circles mate, do you have another Computer you can attach the HDD to, if so I would be inclined to clone over data then on that Computer download and run HD Speed its freeware and will check out the HDD.
Thanks for the advice. I can connect the drive to another computer. I did run the Western Digital Diagnostics and it passed. I looked at the HD Speed link provided and I do not understand how benchmarking the drive will actually fix the problem. If I clone the data over to another drive, I might just keep the new drive installed.
 
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      10-17-2010
Hi Veedaz, thanks for the advice. I am frustrated at the computer. not at you, you are being very helpful. I did some further steps--

I ran the dell diagnostics and get the following error messages: error code 4400:011a msg:USB_Disk_0_:_multicard_Target not ready. With continuing to run the same diagnostics past that point, other errors show up-- I get the same wording but different numbers: 4400:051a, 4400:031a, and 4400:041a
Any ideas? Is that a hard drive problem, an I/O problem, or what?
 
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That sounds like you're having issues with the multi-media card reader on your system. Do you have the driver installed for it?
 
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