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
3 months.

The problems can be any of :
1. Boot splash screen appears and the pc hangs. Need to switch off
power.

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Windows 7 disk and try Repair installation ?
Should I seek professional advice ?

Packard Bell iXtreme X6620 UK
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.5GHz
6 GBytes DDR2 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2Gb RAM
Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit
MoBo Packard Bell EG43M
Direct X 11

TIA

Thanks once again for all of the advice and help.
When I got my pc up and running, out of curiosity I ran a frag
analysis (Auslogics) on my E: drive. The results showed a block of
about 250Gb containing 3 files which were completely fragmented.
These were old system backups, but I didnt think they took up that
much space.
I then ran the defrag on the disk and nothing happened, the block was
not defragged although the rest of the disk was.
I deleted the folder containing these 3 files and since then, apart
from the disk not showing up in File Manager which sorted itself out
on the next reboot, I have had no problems at all.
I realise that it is only a week since I did this, so it is still
early days, but possibly these files were the root of the problem ?
I carried out Seagate and HDSentinel tests on the drive and there
were no problems found.

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