Firefox stucks in update loop

== Issue
==
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
==
This is a ******* problem. It is rediclues. I need to open IE and download firefox to update it. it is shameful.
<blockquote>removed profanity -MJB</blockquote>
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update (Software Update not working properly)
Remove the files in the ''updates'' and ''updates\0'' folder:
XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\&lt;user&gt;\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\updates
Vista/Windows7:
C:\Users\&lt;user&gt;\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
C:\Users\&lt;user&gt;\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\updates

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    Been working and updating fine for the past 5-6 months.
    I have the Optical drive setup as O: and a Daemon tools virtual drive as drive E:
    While running DISKPART and using LIST VOLUME I see this:
    currently the system seems to have lost all update history
    Any information or help on this is appreciated. I don't want to reformat and reinstall, I don't really want to 'repair' and wipe my current software installation so I'm hoping there is a way.
    Anyway I can get the 'pending state' removed.?
    Thanks in advance
    David

    Hi, I've rebooted into Repair mode (Console), (because repair said windows is installed on E:) run dism.exe /image:E:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions
    This gave a message about small scratch space but did say something out a fix. Upon reboot into safemode with console I received the same message 
    "C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow
    Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.
    There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete.  Restart Windows and run sfc again."
    I then rebooted and tried SCF again, no luck... Same message, same updates still sitting there.
    Partition info: (as mentioned earlier C is in RAID 0 with 2 SSD disks)
    DISKPART> list volume
      Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
      Volume 0     O                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
      Volume 1     E                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
      Volume 2         System Rese  NTFS   Partition    100 MB  Healthy    System
      Volume 3     C                NTFS   Partition    111 GB  Healthy    Boot
      Volume 4     D   GB320        NTFS   Partition    298 GB  Healthy

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