Hi!
This is my second post about my laptop being so so slow.
It takes so long just for the laptop to start. There are no files except some software.
And it takes forever for it to open explorer.
Antivirus are also slow. Avast completed 1% in 3 hours. So that is no use.
HDD sentinel showed 90% health. The hard drive is 5 years old.
Any help is apreciated.
90% health means something with the performance of the drive. Did Sentinel show bad sectors? It's probably that reason why your computer is slow because a block of the storage is corrupted and cannot be accessed anymore.
Please give us all the Laptop hardware specs.
I would say that you have a failing HDD. (showed 90% health)
Boot from Win 7 installation disk, go to repair and open a CMD window.
Type:
chkdsk C: /f
IF it doesn't find bad blocks or bad clusters
Type:
sfc /scannow
Hdd sentinal showed 2 bad sectors.
Specs are
i5 2430m
4gb 666 mhz ram
600gb toshiba hdd
did you run Check disk and System File check?
Do you have any yellow alerts on device manager?
Hi,
Might be time for replacement thoughts
A lot of good ssd prices out there
2.5 hdd's have been pretty cheap for some time 500gb about 60.us
Amazon.com: WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5 Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT): Electronics
Check discs for some reason doesnt wanna run. Starting to think hdd is crapping out.
Did you run from Win 7 installation disk as I posted on # 3?
i dont even have one. C
What kind is your Win 7 license (Home, HP, Pro or Ultimate)?
This link is for Pro, valid for 24 hours https://software-download.microsoft....545a7910eadd75
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