Corrupt disk error!! More help needed.

So I got the sli problem fixed and I also discovered what was wrong with WoW and the low fram rates. It was a mod and once I disabled it, the fps went up to 60 again.

So I shut down and moved my laptop to the living room to watch some TV and enjoy the warmth of the fire place. One hour later and numerous restarts and finally my system started, but did not have Nvidia or the GTX260M cards. Let me preface this by telling you that the first time I powered up in the living room, I went into the Bios and enabled both the discrete and integrated graphics. That is when the problems started.

Now I am able to boot up and play wow but when I try to access Outlook I get a coorupt disk error and to run check disk which I did numerous times upon restart to no avail, it just sat there saying to press a button or wait for the ckdisk...20 minutes later I restarted and it booted up.

Now I am having errors in trying to use Microsoft Office or trying to unistall a program, yet wow works fine. Is it an OS problem or a disk error? I cannot open files from my external drive either....

Any ideas how I can fix this? I am getting desperate!

 

More information. I can sometimes open up Word and open a document but not save it to disk as it comes up with a corrupt disk structure error. I can only open WoW when no other prgrama are running.

This is looking more and more like a respawn to the factory settings issue, dang it all! I hate computer errors.....

 

Did you try to run checkdisk from windows?
What is the status of the drive under disk management ?
Also, try this tool to see the SMART status of your disk. But I gotta tell you, sure looks like it's the disk.

 

I fixed the problem by booting to Windows & dvd and repairing the OS. That was Thursday, then this morning I tried to see if by trying to enable both discreet and integrated graphics caused the problem and it did. Well it did not let me boot into windows anyway. So then I just enabled the untegrated graphics and that worked but not the discreet ones, sigh. So I went back to disabling both in the bios and enabling the discreet cards in the Device manager. I have yet to try SLI again, as WoW is working beautifully with 60fps.

So when I got home, I booted up and got the same error, chkdsk! It finally went through checking the disk and worked fine. If you are right and it is teh hard drive, I am still under warranty so will Dell just send me a new drive ro will they have one sent and installed?

 

I'd reformat the HDD and reinstall the OS.
To me it looks like a buggy factory image or corrupted format table.
Hopefully the issue is much more simple and someone can point you to the right direction.