Booting Problems
Strangest thing. I got home from work today, turned on my PC, and everything worked fine. I decided after about an hour to take a rest, and decided to save energy and put my computer in "sleep" mode......
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98% of the time you will get away with hard rebooting your machine. The odd time though you will be unlucky - maybe the machine was writing to an important system file (that's needed for booting) and...
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Thanks for the reply. But I can't seem to find the "last good configuration" option. I press F8 during boot, and that makes my motherboard bring up the boot options menu, so I can select which drive to...
View ArticleOK, so heres what happened...
eventually I managed to get into safemode. I ran chkldsk, and it seemed to change several files. NOW my system will boot, but STILL gets stuck on the windows startup screen for about 1 minute. It USED...
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Have you ran a malware scan? May need to use a bootable CD and run a couple of different scanners, such as MalWareBytes, and Avira...Avira has a good boot CD.
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Well it's good news that it boots again. The next thing I would do is open a command prompt as an administrator (Find it in the Start Menu under All Programs - Accessories. Right-click it and choose...
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you should try another HDD on your computer to confirm. or check this HDD to another computer
View ArticleI second kush tyagi's advice
Many times I have found that when a computer takes a lloooonnnggg time to read a file the HDD is failing. I have suspected that the file that takes a long time to load has been written to a part of the...
View ArticleStill ongoing... think it is drastic.
OK, LONG wait for the reply... BUT, it seemed to be booting perfectly, and CONTINUES to do so... but freezes VERY consistently a few seconds after boot. Sometimes on the login screen, sometimes while...
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Yep - definitely sounds like a HDD issue to me. The noises sound like a hard drive issue, and the random slowness etc are common symptoms too so having them together makes it extremely likely to be the...
View ArticleFinal Query?
OK, so I bought a new HDD after work, installed it alongside my old HDD, and installed Windows 7 on it.. After boot, I used a partition manager to completely wipe all data from my old HDD, deleted all...
View ArticleDon't waste any more time with it
I suggest that you unplug the old HDD and remove it from your system. Then run your computer for a week or two. If it runs fine then you can be reasonably sure that the old HDD was causing the...
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