I experienced repeated problems with a new installation of Windows 7 combined with NIS 2010.
Hardware: ASUS M3A motherboard; 4 GBRAM; AMD Dual Core CPU 2x2.5 GHZ; 4x 500GB HDD
Software: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit OEM; dual boot config with Windows Vista 32-bit on one of the other HDDs
NIS 2010 was purchased online; I used the same downloaded installer file on the failed install on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (reported below) and for the successful install on Windows Vista 32-bit on the same PC (where I am writing this message).
Attempted Steps:
1) Install Windows 7 clean install on a clean HDD
2) Install NIS 2010
3) Let LiveUpdate run on NIS 2010
4) Install MS Office 2003
5) Windows Update runs updates on Windows and Office
6) At some point between steps 4) and 5) Windows reports disk errors
7) Close down Windows
8) Restart Windows
9) During W7 restart, it automatically runs CHKDSK; which reports a lot of of disk errors; and it tries to fix them
At this point, the system is flakey: I don't trust it. So I re-format the whole HDD and run steps 1) thru 9) again. Same problem. I repeated this with some variations between steps 4) and 5) three times. Same problem each time.
Then, I repeated the same steps 1) thru 9) except in steps 2) and 3) instead of installing and updating NIS 2010, I installed and updated Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. This time (with Kaspersky) the installation process ran perfectly. And the computer is still running rock solid 2 days later.
Now Kaspersky looks like a good enough suite. But I think NIS 2010 is better. So my question is: how to fix NIS 2010 so it does not cause Disk Errors on my PC?
To summarise again, on the exact same hardware, NIS 2010 installs and works fine on the Vista 32-bit partition, but it fails on the Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit partition. And Kaspersky works fine on the latter. So the problem is due to the combination of Windows 7 64-bit and NIS 2010...
AndrewFG