Thankyou all for your advice.
After my last post, my pc started behaving itself, booting with no
problems for 3 days.

The pc contains 2 hdd, 1 Tb partitioned as PQSERVICE 12 Gb, SYSTEM
RESERVED 100 Mb, C: (o/s partition) 459.45Gb and D: 459.96Gb.
The second hdd is E:, 1863 Gb.

After the 3 days, for 2 days, when I started up I received a message
that the E: drive needed checking for consistency. The check was done
with no errors. After this on both days the pc booted successfully and
I had no problems.
Then when I tried to access the disk, although it was shown in File
Manager, I received that the disk was corrupt or not accessible. Again
this seemed to clear itself the next day and I have had no prolems
with the disk since.
This mornng I again received the message that the hdd needed checking,
again there were no errors and the pc booted successfully.

Can I assume that the hdd is on its way out and needs replacing ?
Could this be the cause of my earlier problem ?

On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:03:43 +0100, scbs29
wrote:

Hello all
Literally between switching off at night and restarting next morning I
started having problems booting up. It can take anything up to 5
or 6 tries before I succeed. This has been going on for 4 days.
There have been no changes to software or hardware for at least
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Problem signature 06 1
Problem signature 07 NoRootCause
OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID 1033


TIA

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