I tracked down the problem late yesterday.  I was on a forum where someone 
had exactly the same problem and solved it by uninstalling AVG anti-virus, 
rebooting and then reinstalling.  Solved the problem.

Thanks,

Bob

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Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Restore problem

> Boot from the Win7 disk and run a startup repair:
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/startup-repair
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Restore problem
> From: lswpubrw <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, June 24, 2010 9:13 am
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I'm running W7 upgrade on an HP E9180T. Last night I inadvertently shut
> off the computer by switch when I didn't realize it was still updating a
> big download from MS. Now when I turn the computer on I get the chkdisk
> message saying some files may be corrupted. Then it says it can't do
> chdsk because those files have a problem. It tells me to run Restore
> which I have for before this event but restore won't run without first
> running chkdsk. So I appear to be unable to run a restore. Is there a
> way around this short of reinstalling W7 which was an upgrade on top of
> Vista?
>
> Bob Warasila
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