Thank you for responding.
Originally the laptop was purchased with Vista home premium 32 bit. The OS crashed heavily about 1-1/2 months ago after a windows update. I had two options: use the rescue disk to go back to the original setup or re-format & install Win 7 Home premium 32 bit. Before I did that, I made sure, on MSI's website, which OS was supporting that laptop. There was 2: Vista HP 32 bit and Win 7 HP 32 bit. I then re-formatted the entire disk and did a fresh Win 7 install (purchased the software at local computer store) . Everything went very well and the PC had never run any better.... before this incident. I had never had any warnings prior from the system and everything was cool.
That night, this is the exact message I got because I wrote it down. By the way, I'm using Symantec Endpoint Protection - Corporate Edition. The software is tweaked to provide automatic virus definition updates every day and scanning every 3 days. That's when I'm not doing one manually. Unfortunately, I did not have an image backup of the new install (what a mistake). I tried using the DVD to repair the OS but its got nothing to repair because its actually booting; Last night, I tried it again and it booted directly to the black desktop, program icons included. After the usual warnings that some programs (4 or 5) need to close, I got a message saying I would have to re-install Win 7 because of unauthorized modification. All the programs installed in partition C, except for maybe one or two, are not working. I can't even go online obviously because I've got no access to the partition at all; its denying me that right. Hopefully, that clears up a lot of your questions