I am running Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1. My Windows 7 installation came OEM with my Acer Aspire One AO756.
The system had notified me that my hard disk had corrupt sectors and suggested I run chkdsk. When I ran chkdsk from an elevated prompt, it said it would run the next time I rebooted since the drive was in use. But it never did. I read that the reason for this might be that the file autochk.exe might be corrupt. So I tried running sfc /scannow. However, it only got to 10% before it stopped and said it was unable to continue. I made a system repair disk and ran chkdsk /f/r from there. It said it fixed/repaired various issues.
After this I ran sfc /scannow again. This time it ran to completion. It said:
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That is, autochk.exe, dinotify.exe, and batt.dll.mui cannot be repaired.
I tried following the directions here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
Under Step2, I did 1) and 2) for each file from an elevated command prompt:
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However, now for 3) I need a known good copy of each of these files. Where would I find that?
I will be grateful for your help.
ADVthanksANCE