i have gotten the error in the microsoft KB article 975778 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975778/en-us)

i was able to get onto my computer luckily, but when i went on to get the hotfix that is stated in the article, it gave me this error when i ran it: "the update is not applicable to your computer."

is there any way of getting the disk check error to stop, or to get this fix to work.

i will answer any questions on hardware if you post the questions in the comments.

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this is the a full version that i got from ASUS as an upgrade disk from windows vista (hopefully more specific than you were asking)