Corrupt / Unusable Disk Error - Vista

[aurimasmb]

I have a one year-old Vista, and until yesterday, have had no problems with it.

I started a program (Azureus Vuze) and it prompted me that it had not been shut down properly, a message I had received before. However, it also returned a strange error about a corrupt and unusable disk.
Within seconds all active programs on my desktop began spitting the same error message at me:

"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the Chkdsk utility on the volume C:. "

C: is the partition where Vista is installed, so this is worrying to me.

I was worried that if I tried to reboot, Windows would not be able to load, because of the corrupt disk. So I tried, on a hunch, uninstalling Azureus Vuze, and either by coincidence, or because the corruption was somewhere in the Vuze program files the problem went away.

I rebooted some time later, and when prompted with the recommended option to run Chkdsk, I declined temporarily, thinking to run it next time I booted.

Everything worked fine once more, until again, completely randomly, the error reappeared. Just as before, it strangely disappeared for no reason either...

Before I reboot and run Chkdsk, which I am scared to do, for fear of losing my HD if windows won't load, can anyone give me some advice on this?

Could this be a virus? Is this hardware, or software?

 

[3uL]

Never happen this thing to me before even my harddisk is corrupt. The only thing happen to me when my harddisk is corrupt is the OS is often hang and I need to reset the pc.
What happen to you is sound suspicious. It might be a virus. But try do chkdsk and see whether the harddisk is really is corrupt..

 

[Aastii]

I have a one year-old Vista, and until yesterday, have had no problems with it.

I started a program (Azureus Vuze) and it prompted me that it had not been shut down properly, a message I had received before. However, it also returned a strange error about a corrupt and unusable disk.
Within seconds all active programs on my desktop began spitting the same error message at me:

"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the Chkdsk utility on the volume C:. "

C: is the partition where Vista is installed, so this is worrying to me.

I was worried that if I tried to reboot, Windows would not be able to load, because of the corrupt disk. So I tried, on a hunch, uninstalling Azureus Vuze, and either by coincidence, or because the corruption was somewhere in the Vuze program files the problem went away.

I rebooted some time later, and when prompted with the recommended option to run Chkdsk, I declined temporarily, thinking to run it next time I booted.

Everything worked fine once more, until again, completely randomly, the error reappeared. Just as before, it strangely disappeared for no reason either...

Before I reboot and run Chkdsk, which I am scared to do, for fear of losing my HD if windows won't load, can anyone give me some advice on this?

Could this be a virus? Is this hardware, or software?

First, before you do anything, back up all files that you absolutely certainly need. Remember stuff like programs or music you can get again if you have a hard copy or an account copy (like steam or something) so don't bother.

Next, run check disk, see what the comes up with.

If nothing, run a virus scan.

If nothing, put your vista disk in and select repair. To get to repair put it in, boot from disk and then it will either be an option on your black screen white text screen, or it will be in the bottom left corner of the install window.

If that comes up with nothing then get back, but that should have sorted it.