HI Noel,
I promised to get back to you once the pc was back and running again. It was a hard drive that failed. The pc was running 3 with RAID. We decided, remove RAID keep 2 HD's and just do a clean install of windows to correct all the other errors I still had.
I do want to thank you again for the wonderful help about the Windows Update Error issue.
To others out there... This site rocks
Thanks for the feedback, Debbie - I assume you were running RAID1? - that should have thrown all sorts of obvious errors if one of the drives was failing, I thought?
Have fun with your fully-functional system
My Computer
Computer type
Laptop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Asus K52F or Lenovo B51-80
OS
Win 7 x64 Home Premium (and x86 VirtualBox VM)/Win10
CPU
i3 370M/i7 6500U
Motherboard
Asus/Lenovo
Memory
8GB - finally :)/8GB
Graphics Card(s)
it's an i3, dude!/dual Intel&nVidia
Sound Card
onboard
Monitor(s) Displays
15.6" built-in
Screen Resolution
1366x768/1920x1080
Hard Drives
750GB Seagate internal
Sundry external drives attached to other computers on the local network
1TB SSD on the Lenovo
PSU
n/a
Internet Speed
as much as I can get - usually on a dongle/phone, so <1MB/s
Yea RAID 1 and guess that bad HD was giving sighs with all the errors we saw. But the issue you helped with was a problem not related. Wasn't first time I had that very same error. I just hated to send my pc to the shop for it so tried here for the help Just the HD decided at the same time to make its dive. Anyway, all seems good and working now. Take care
