windows 7 long "starting windows" screen time and froze disk check

Sometimes my computer takes several minutes to start (that is "Starting Windows" displays for several minutes) and other times it starts quickly. It seems to be almost arbitrary. I have read USB devices could cause it but I only have a USB keyboard connected. I also read that I could disable the...

Hi, I doubt the bad sector on hard disk, so I made check disk through the Windows 7 (not in cmd mode). In processing check disk stops at stage "2154545 file record processed" (2154545 is random number), and I wait for 2 hours but without any results. Why check disk stopped at this point? What...

I upgraded my Intel Rapid Storage software, reset the computer and now it won't get passed the windows starting screen. The windows logo comes up then it freezes, I have tried leaving it for over an hour to see if it sorted itself out, and powered it off completely. Numerous re-boot attempts all...

I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 The other day I was afk while listening to loud music from my computer. Suddenly the speakers began screaming in a high pitch and when I got to my computer it had frozen. I tried to reboot it, but it simply froze at the Windows loading screen with the floating...

Hello all, So I was just wondering if this is a problem inherent to Windows 7, or if I'm having bad luck with my hard drives. I popped in a new Samsung Spinpoint F3 1 TB hard drive, expecting start up to go a lot faster than with my old drive. The first start up was extremely quick, but...