disk issues

hello, all I received a custom built computer for Christmas almost a year ago, in that I won't be able to name my system specs or hardware, and it was working perfectly fine up until a few weeks. I don't recall installing or uninstalling any important programs but here is an outline of the...

Hello.I bought asus laptop k551ln-xx250h 2 months ago from Malasiya.It was fine bt 4 days ago it ran into a problem and started automatic repair.After waiting about an hour it started checking the c drive.Then the loop continued when i started my laptop.I tried to fix it by refreshing and...

Last night, my HP laptop (I'm not sure which kind) would not turn off, so I took the battery out to shut it off that way. When I put the battery back in and tried starting it up, it started, but told me that it was "Repairing Disk Errors" so I waited for about an hour and a half, and it blue...

I downloaded and used the Boot Repair Disc on source forge.net It installed and I was told to remove the disc and close the tray before running a restart. I clicked OK it shutdown fine. But on restart it was just like after quite a few Windows Updates after restarting a dark grey/black blank...

Last year when check disk was run automatically on startup it repaired a ton of errors and then this week when check disk again ran automatically again it said that an unexpected error occured and it was not able to lock the drive and told that it may be because of a resent software installation...

Hi there, this is also posted in the Apple forums, as I'm running Windows and Mac OSX on separate partitions on a MacBook Pro, but it was suggested I might get more help here as it's a pretty specific Windows problem. Whilst editing the msconfig setup on my Windows 7 64bit partition (which I've...

Win 7 prof, 24 gig ram, Asus motherboard and several hard drives, regular WDs and 2 SSD. Everything has been fine for months. Tonight I closed out of all programs, went away and when I came back there was a strange notification that said my Plextor SSD (which is my drive C) is failing and I...

Hi, I have Windows 8.1 as my operating system. After a random amount of time, my Disk usage will jump to 100% for around 30s-1min then go back to normal. It will continually do this over and over again. The problem is, I can't figure out a solution or the cause of the problem. I looked online...

I don't have any experience with UEIF machines. My nephew is autistic and learning disabled and I got him a new HP Windows 7 PC and it is UEIF. I've been setting it up for him. I made the repair disk and figured out how to boot from it but it says disk error or not a system disc. I burned an ISO...

Well, I've been working on this for a couple of days now, and I've researched this issue like crazy, but nothing I've found covers my situation, so I'm looking for some advanced help, please. I'm trying to perform a clean (custom) install of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit from the original retail DVD...

I purchased software/download and then burned to DVD disc. I installed the software on my Vista(64) system OK, but when I loaded the DVD into my Win 8.1 all the drive does is spin. It's been over 10 minutes and still spins away. I do get win explorer window with files shown normally with the...

I've always been getting blue screens, but they're starting to become more and more frequent. I haven't been able to use my laptop for more than a day without one showing up! The stop codes I've been getting are 0x0000000A and 0x0000001E. I tried running a chkdsk and it told me it would during...

my hdd works fine but does not show up in device manager or in computer managements. Shows up in explorer. The led also blinks ocassionally. Asus motherboard, Seagate 1T hdd. Windows XP sp3. Indexing is turned off. Partitioning and formatting was done with Partition Wizard v7. Could someone...

Hi, i have a Fujitsu mhv2060ah 60GB with a S.M.A.R.T problem and it says the imminent something doesn't work or something like that. The way im guessing this happened was that i plugged this hard drive into another laptop and then plugged it into the original laptop and just saying it i did...

Hi, My company has about 10 new HP 2570p laptops. These have 128GB SSD. I have set up two of these laptops in audit mode with all drivers, updates and software configured. I then went to sysprep, selected OOBE - generalise and shutdown. The first laptop gave me a BSOD preventing Windows...

3 yr old Dell won't self-repair, allow me to restore to a recovery point or use a recovery CD. The testing I did indicated a corrupt registry and some disk error codes. (No new software installations/removals but there was a critical update pushed 7/2.) Frustrated that I can't get it back...

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Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

Hi, This just started to happen yesterday, after 2 and half years of use: There is a pop-up that claims that "this computer is not running genuine Windows" But, if I go to Computer/properties there is: Windows activation Windows is activated Product ID: xxxxx-OEM-xxxxxxx-xxxxx If I click...

I am dual booting win8 and win7. I actually have win8 installed on its own hard drive and win 7 installed in its own hard drive. The win7 hard drive has been in use for the past 2 years and I have had Win8 running for about a week now. I purchased another hard drive for Win8 and left the old...