Bootcamp assistant no longer showing up in windows 7

Bootcamp with windows 7 has worked fine for me for months and months and suddenly the small grey diamond that stayed in the taskbar has dissapeared and the only way I can bring it back is continously reinstalling the bootcamp drivers on the windows side...and that obviously is not a permanent fix as each restart I have to do it again.
Without this I am unable to adjust volume, screen brightness or keyboard brightness using the keyboard.
I have no idea why this started happening.
any help?

tried that, still reverted back.
I ran a chkdsk as suggested above and when the computer started again everything was working. Since then I haven't booted back into 7 because I've been studying for finals and haven't had time to check, so once I do (tomorrow or late tonight) I will update the thread.
strange fix if thats what did it, especially because no errors were found...

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