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Windows 7 randomly freezes, sometimes starts up without Desktop
Hello all,
I think my problems are of various nature and I start to think it might be hardware related but not too sure. Let me explain a bit about the history.
Around April this year it started, that my Windows 7 pro 64bit system, which was running fine for 2 years had it's hicups. When running Chrome or Skype it just started to freeze every now or then apps didn't run at all. I believed it's was an application issue, but in the end I wasn't able to fresh install Skype anymore so I ran a Malware check.
But no malware was found.
So I thought maybe the registry is so messed up that I might have to look into a fresh install. Also I thought that way I get a fresh clean system and remove old entries that just slow down my machine. I didn't mind doing a clean installation at this point.
I had various problems during the reinstall and ended up till now with roughly 8 reinstallations of my system. All went fine up to the point, when I had to update the netframework. At that point, the updates just failed.
With the latest reinstallation I just skipped the windows updates from 2012 alltogether and it ran fine for a while. Now I get again random freezes (black screen, like if the monitor just switches off) or on boot up it can't find the Desktop and tries to configure it for around 5 minutes.
I ran malware checks, used ccCleaner and avast. Everything looks fine. I also ran the svc check that I found somewhere to do, but wasn't sure how o interpret the data.
I now don't really want to go through another re installation of the system and believe it might be some hardware failure.
I have 4 hdd's in my computer all of the same brand and size. WD 250GB HDD, one is the system drive and I want to clone now my installation over to another drive to check if it's maybe a hardware issue. Now I did read somewhere else that Windows might store the bootloader on one of these extra disks.
How can I make sure all is on one disk. Is there a good Cloner that helps me with that?
What other possibilities and things should I check? Do you believe I'm on the right track that it's a hardware issue? I mean it happened now over and over, though what makes me also suspicious were the failing windows updates.
Thank you all
my System Specs should show up somewhere, as I did add them to my profile