Sorry for getting back to you guys so slowly; I've done all of the things you guys suggested, and none of the scans found any problems (though adwcleaner did find a bunch of tracking cookies and removed them).
I've also attached of the disk management screen as requested. I did a Partition Wizard CD Partition surface test and it found no errors. I also ran Western Digital's HD diagnostic tool, and it also found no errors.
I have not yet done the suggested HD Diagnostic extended CD scan -- just because I don't have any blank CDs handy to burn a boot disk, but will do so as soon as I get some.
Also, recently I noticed that the HDD chatter/clicking has been getting louder. I don't know if this is just because I'm becoming more self-conscious of the HDD noise. The chatter is loudest during boot-up, and it'll also occur from time to time while I'm using the computer. I'm not sure how to describe it (maybe almost like a scratching sound?), but it def doesn't sound normal in my opinion.
Just how loud is this clatter lanboy you should hear some slight clicking/fluttering and the disk spinning but loud clatter does not seem right to me at least.
Hey guys, I just restored my Win 7 to good working order after my hard-wired connection went dead on me. Thanks to the help of this forum, it's running great now so I decided to back up/create a system image again to save me time and energy in the future should something happen to my laptop in the...
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I have an external 250GB USB 2.0 drive that only has 129 very big files, each of them between 700MB and 8GB.
I tried to copy all this data to a new USB 3.0 drive using a commercial tool to compare and sync directories and files. 3 hours later, all but 9 of the files were copied. The...
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Okay I will give you a short background of the events leading up to my current state. Yesterday my awesome computer with no problems all the sudden froze, I had to hard reboot it; When It started back up I was logged into a temporary account after looking online and following steps to...
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I'm running a Chkdsk/r on my WIndows 7 laptop.
The HDD in it has size of about 500 gigabytes, and 400 gigabytes have been used.
There's no symptoms of failing recently, but I've got a feeling that it must be checked.
So I ran Chkdsk/r about more than 24 hours ago.
When it...
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My problem was that startup repair wasn't workiing and was in loop, i tried everything and didnt know what to do, anyways i was bored so i kept trying the infinite loop tutorial several times only to see I/o errors..... I kept trying one got through so i closed the cmd and reatarted...
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