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Hi all , have a serious issue with windows 7. When i turned on the PC yesterday windows explorer repatedly stopped working then restarting. I cant open any thing at all as this wont run for more than 5 seconds without shutting off and re-starting.....even dose this in safe mode.Tried a repair from the 7 Disc buy this cant find any errors...totally stumped on this ....any ideas Peeps......cheers Pete
P.S System restore didnt work either !!!!!

Pete,

I've seen this before, you need to run a chkdsk from the windows 7 disk.
In the System Recovery Options window choose Command Prompt, at the command window type the following:

chkdsk /r (note the space between k and /) and press enter.

OK here goes.......ran checkdisk from the new instalation and this stopped the problem after it looped a few times... well chuffed...however my system now takes about 3 mins to boot up from pushing the start button to showing the desktop..(I,m not too bothered about this at the Mo as least I can get on and use the PC now).I have tried to fix this issue with repair from the Install disc but this came up blank (Again) I think it may be a hard drive problem as it hangs on boot for a couple of mins before the option to choose which OS to run so I dont think its a software issue..It even dose this on the new install which I put in to gain access to the PC ( This wasnt happening before the looping issue) So trying to disable as many un-neccessary items as possible aint working...any Ideas anyone, I,m all ears if you have ......thanks to all for the help...........Oh yeah I tried to do an Upgrade from the CD to see if this would fix any further issues but this wouldnt Re-boot after the first restart so I gave up on this idea in case it F**%ed everything else up!!!!...Cheers Pete

It does sound like a hard drive issue, have you checked the drive with the manufactures testing tool?

OK TIME TO CONCLUDE THIS ISSUE ( I hope).I bit the bullet and put a new partition on my storage drive, installed windows 7 on here just to see if this would boot up quicker. Hey Presto this seems to have overwritten whatever was causing the problem..my old 7 setup now boots up in under 45 seconds again !!!!!! I am not sure how this cured the problem but I dint really care now..lol I am now going to re-format the new partition and hope that this wont reverse the good work......