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Startup problems
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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. 2. The login screen appears and the pc hangs. Need to switch off power. 3. I log in and get bsod. I have had 3 bsod IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL MEMORY_MANAGEMENT PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 4. I log in and the pc starts ok. After a period of time of a few seconds or a few minutes the pc freezes. Need to switch off power. If none of the above occurs the pc runs normally. Following information I found on the web I tried chkdsk which gave a clean bill of health and Win 7 memory checker which also gave a clean bill of health. Today I tried quite a few times to startup and eventually received a message asking if I wanted to try a startup repair. I replied Yes. I received a dialog stating Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically Problem signature Problem event name StartupRepairOffline Problem signature 01 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 03 Unknown Problem signature 04 1549 Problem signature 05 AutoFailOver Problem signature 06 1 Problem signature 07 NoRootCause OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 1033 The startup diagnosis and repair log showed no errors except System files integrity check and repair Failed Error code 0x2 After this the pc booted up normally. I have run virus checks with no problems reported. I have also had some instances on shutdown being informed that it was an unclean shutdown. Also told on shutdown that there is a program stopping the shutdown and to terminate the program before shutting down. There is never any indication of what the program is. Can anyone advise me ? Is the next step to boot from the 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 -- remove fred before emailing |
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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. 2. The login screen appears and the pc hangs. Need to switch off power. 3. I log in and get bsod. I have had 3 bsod IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL MEMORY_MANAGEMENT PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 4. I log in and the pc starts ok. After a period of time of a few seconds or a few minutes the pc freezes. Need to switch off power. If none of the above occurs the pc runs normally. Following information I found on the web I tried chkdsk which gave a clean bill of health and Win 7 memory checker which also gave a clean bill of health. Today I tried quite a few times to startup and eventually received a message asking if I wanted to try a startup repair. I replied Yes. I received a dialog stating Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically Problem signature Problem event name StartupRepairOffline Problem signature 01 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 03 Unknown Problem signature 04 1549 Problem signature 05 AutoFailOver Problem signature 06 1 Problem signature 07 NoRootCause OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 1033 The startup diagnosis and repair log showed no errors except System files integrity check and repair Failed Error code 0x2 After this the pc booted up normally. I have run virus checks with no problems reported. I have also had some instances on shutdown being informed that it was an unclean shutdown. Also told on shutdown that there is a program stopping the shutdown and to terminate the program before shutting down. There is never any indication of what the program is. Can anyone advise me ? Is the next step to boot from the 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 Try removing and re-seating your RAM sticks. |
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"scbs29" wrote
| 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. | I think Weatherman's suggestion is a good idea to start. If that doesn't work, try removing one at a time. You could also try memtest86. I don't know whether windows memory check is any good but I wouldn't trust it. If that doesn't solve the problem, look up the error codes. Advice like running chkdsk rarely solves anything. It's just generic advice, like, "Confirm that your TV is plugged in". But error codes are extensive and can be very informative. It will be 1 32-bit integer in base-16 format, followed by 4 more. Like: 0xC0054113{0x00003412........ etc. The "0x" is just notation. The 8 characters following are the number. Often the "high word", the first 4 characters, represent a category. I often just copy part of the whole error code text and search for that. Usually someone has had the same errors and reprinted them online as they looked for an answer. |
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scbs29 wrote:
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. 2. The login screen appears and the pc hangs. Need to switch off power. 3. I log in and get bsod. I have had 3 bsod IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL MEMORY_MANAGEMENT PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 4. I log in and the pc starts ok. After a period of time of a few seconds or a few minutes the pc freezes. Need to switch off power. If none of the above occurs the pc runs normally. Following information I found on the web I tried chkdsk which gave a clean bill of health and Win 7 memory checker which also gave a clean bill of health. Today I tried quite a few times to startup and eventually received a message asking if I wanted to try a startup repair. I replied Yes. I received a dialog stating Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically Problem signature Problem event name StartupRepairOffline Problem signature 01 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 03 Unknown Problem signature 04 1549 Problem signature 05 AutoFailOver Problem signature 06 1 Problem signature 07 NoRootCause OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 1033 The startup diagnosis and repair log showed no errors except System files integrity check and repair Failed Error code 0x2 After this the pc booted up normally. I have run virus checks with no problems reported. I have also had some instances on shutdown being informed that it was an unclean shutdown. Also told on shutdown that there is a program stopping the shutdown and to terminate the program before shutting down. There is never any indication of what the program is. Can anyone advise me ? Is the next step to boot from the 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 Disconnect all non-essential hardware from the PSU. For example, disconnect all USB devices except for mouse and keyboard if those are USB, disconnect power from the CD/DVD drive, and disconnect all hard disks except for the one with the OS partition. The idea is to relieve the PSU of some of its load to see if boot becomes stable. If so, time to replace the PSU (and of a larger capacity). Get and run memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/). From online searching on "Packard Bell iXtreme X6620", apparently that computer model came out around May 2010. That means the CMOS battery is 8 years old ... too old. Replace it. If you have customized the BIOS settings, note them and reset the BIOS after installing the new battery and then restore the custom BIOS settings. |
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VanguardLH wrote:
scbs29 wrote: 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. 2. The login screen appears and the pc hangs. Need to switch off power. 3. I log in and get bsod. I have had 3 bsod IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL MEMORY_MANAGEMENT PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 4. I log in and the pc starts ok. After a period of time of a few seconds or a few minutes the pc freezes. Need to switch off power. If none of the above occurs the pc runs normally. Following information I found on the web I tried chkdsk which gave a clean bill of health and Win 7 memory checker which also gave a clean bill of health. Today I tried quite a few times to startup and eventually received a message asking if I wanted to try a startup repair. I replied Yes. I received a dialog stating Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically Problem signature Problem event name StartupRepairOffline Problem signature 01 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 03 Unknown Problem signature 04 1549 Problem signature 05 AutoFailOver Problem signature 06 1 Problem signature 07 NoRootCause OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 1033 The startup diagnosis and repair log showed no errors except System files integrity check and repair Failed Error code 0x2 After this the pc booted up normally. I have run virus checks with no problems reported. I have also had some instances on shutdown being informed that it was an unclean shutdown. Also told on shutdown that there is a program stopping the shutdown and to terminate the program before shutting down. There is never any indication of what the program is. Can anyone advise me ? Is the next step to boot from the 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 Disconnect all non-essential hardware from the PSU. For example, disconnect all USB devices except for mouse and keyboard if those are USB, disconnect power from the CD/DVD drive, and disconnect all hard disks except for the one with the OS partition. The idea is to relieve the PSU of some of its load to see if boot becomes stable. If so, time to replace the PSU (and of a larger capacity). Get and run memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/). From online searching on "Packard Bell iXtreme X6620", apparently that computer model came out around May 2010. That means the CMOS battery is 8 years old ... too old. Replace it. If you have customized the BIOS settings, note them and reset the BIOS after installing the new battery and then restore the custom BIOS settings. Oops, forgot to mention that you might want to run: chkdsk.exe /r drive: I've seen where a flaky sector (within a cluster) would manage to read okay sometimes but fail other times. /r tests all clusters (whether allocated or not), so how long chkdsk takes to complete the task depends on the size of the partition (the drive spec). The problem with /r should it find an iffy sector and mark it bad and use up a reserve sector on the disk is that it only tests sectors within the specified partition by the drive letter. It does not test the boot cylinder of the hard disk (where is the MBR with its partition tables, bootstrap code, and other data, or the UEFI sector if using that). With magnetic media, dipole stress causes reduced differential in signal strength over time unless the sector gets rewritten. The disk's firmware will attempt re-reads of a flaky sector, and so will the OS, so they compound each other until it takes something like 15 attempts before a sector is considered too flaky. There are tools that will test every sector on a hard disk by testing a buffer area, moving data to the buffer, and then testing the sector where was the data whether it was within a partition, boot cylinder, or unallocated space within a partition. The idea is to refresh every sector to ensure the dipoles are at their maximum field strength. Spinrite is one such tool but it's a bit dated and a bit pricey at $89. HDD Regenerator is another such tool but every more pricey at $99. HD Sentinel has a disk reinitialize feature in its Pro version at $30. I've heard of but not used HDAT2, DiskFresh, and DRevitalize. If your disk is an SDD, dipole stress is not an issue because an SSD doesn't use magnetic media to record data. SSDs use masking to redirect bad memory blocks to reserve blocks. When the reserve gets used up, the SSD immediately and catastrophically fails. |
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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. 2. The login screen appears and the pc hangs. Need to switch off power. 3. I log in and get bsod. I have had 3 bsod IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL MEMORY_MANAGEMENT PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 4. I log in and the pc starts ok. After a period of time of a few seconds or a few minutes the pc freezes. Need to switch off power. If none of the above occurs the pc runs normally. Following information I found on the web I tried chkdsk which gave a clean bill of health and Win 7 memory checker which also gave a clean bill of health. Today I tried quite a few times to startup and eventually received a message asking if I wanted to try a startup repair. I replied Yes. I received a dialog stating Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically Problem signature Problem event name StartupRepairOffline Problem signature 01 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 02 6.1.7600.16385 Problem signature 03 Unknown Problem signature 04 1549 Problem signature 05 AutoFailOver Problem signature 06 1 Problem signature 07 NoRootCause OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 1033 The startup diagnosis and repair log showed no errors except System files integrity check and repair Failed Error code 0x2 After this the pc booted up normally. I have run virus checks with no problems reported. I have also had some instances on shutdown being informed that it was an unclean shutdown. Also told on shutdown that there is a program stopping the shutdown and to terminate the program before shutting down. There is never any indication of what the program is. Can anyone advise me ? Is the next step to boot from the 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 One of my win7's did similar about a week ago. It would get nearly to "enter password" , shut down and reboot. Did that continuously. After trying all the simple remedies, I finally hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and got somehow to the system restore prompt, restored the last restore and everything has worked fine since. -- G Ross |
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:12:19 -0400, G Ross wrote:
scbs29 wrote: Hello all Literally between switching off at night and restarting next morning I Thanks for the advice. Memtest86 gave a clean bill of health. This morning the pc booted as far as the login screen then when I entered my password it rebooted and froze at the boot splash. I then tried unpluggiing all except the system disk and now when I try to boot tne pc emits a continuous high pitched beep and doesnt get to the boot splash. I think I need professional help. -- remove fred before emailing |
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scbs29 wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:12:19 -0400, G Ross wrote: scbs29 wrote: Hello all Literally between switching off at night and restarting next morning I Thanks for the advice. Memtest86 gave a clean bill of health. This morning the pc booted as far as the login screen then when I entered my password it rebooted and froze at the boot splash. I then tried unpluggiing all except the system disk and now when I try to boot tne pc emits a continuous high pitched beep and doesnt get to the boot splash. I think I need professional help. Leaking caps ? Could be inside the ATX PSU, or could be on the motherboard around the CPU socket area or next to the DIMM slots. My thinking is, the machine kinda works when one of four cores is in usage. The BIOS probably uses only one core. When handed off to the OS and four cores are used, it becomes unstable because of the extra electrical load. That could be a problem with VCore regulator, VDimm regulator, or the ATX PSU. Your errors smack of memory errors, yet the memtest86+ test finished. The memtest86+ test can be run with one core or four cores. The latest version support multi-core operation, and maybe that will add enough stress to tip over memtest. http://www.memtest.org/ V5.01 Added experimental SMT support up to 32 cores (Press F2 to enable at startup) HTH, Paul |
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In message , scbs29
writes: On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:12:19 -0400, G Ross wrote: scbs29 wrote: Hello all Literally between switching off at night and restarting next morning I Thanks for the advice. Memtest86 gave a clean bill of health. This morning the pc booted as far as the login screen then when I entered my password it rebooted and froze at the boot splash. I then tried unpluggiing all except the system disk and now when I try to boot tne pc emits a continuous high pitched beep and doesnt get to the boot splash. I think I need professional help. Can't speak for you, but as for your computer ... (sorry, couldn't resist!) When you say you unplugged all but the disk, you didn't unplug your RAM, did you? Some mobos will complain (in fact I think most will) if you do that. Might be worth checking your mobo's manual for what continuous beep indicates, if there's a table of what various beeps mean. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. |
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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 snip Problem signature 06 1 Problem signature 07 NoRootCause OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 1033 TIA -- remove fred before emailing |
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scbs29 wrote:
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 ? Try disabling the E drive, reboot, see what happens. If it's okay, carry on for a few days. If all works error-free, you'll have nailed your problem. After that it'll be a question of finding out what's wrong with the E drive. Badly installed? Drivers corrupt? Sectors dying? Let us know, and we'll guide you through. Ed |
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scbs29 wrote:
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 snip Problem signature 06 1 Problem signature 07 NoRootCause OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 1033 TIA HDTune - Health tab http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe Sample of a disk drive in good health. https://s33.postimg.cc/mmiax893z/my_...t3500418as.gif ******* The second health check is the Benchmark (read-only) curve. If you see a 50GB wide swath of disk delivering 5-10MB/sec of bandwidth, that's a "bad spot" and can have lots of reallocated sectors in it. Unfortunately. the SMART statistics are best at predicting failure, if errors are spread uniformly over the platter surface. If the platter is bad in only one spot, the health indicators can continue to indicate "good". Here, a user compares two different drives from the same batch. A sick one on the left. A healthy one on the right. https://superuser.com/questions/9457...ormance-spikes There could be other explanations for the one on the left, but the one on the right tested OK, so that eliminates a lot of coincidence cases. The downward section at 37% of the way across the surface, is cause for concern. It's not dead, but that's a bad spot that could cost a file or two. The benchmark curve on the left, is how we detect trouble before it gets to the "SMART warning" stage. ******* SMART is not a perfect scheme, but it's what we've got available to us. Paul |
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:16:03 +0100, scbs29
wrote: Can I assume that the hdd is on its way out and needs replacing ? Could this be the cause of my earlier problem ? In addition to the other advice, I would also check Event Viewer for disk issues. I had a situation a few years ago where I had a flaky SATA connector and Event Viewer was reporting well over 60,000 communication issues with that drive. I had assumed that the drive was dying, but reseating the SATA connector completely resolved the issue. Drives vibrate and SATA connectors aren't great to begin with, plus they are only rated for about 50 insertion cycles. The whole thing is a recipe for failure. Quite possibly not your problem, but it's always good to check Event Viewer when you're having issues. Just remember to resist the urge to delete any of the event logs. Instead, take a moment to learn how to filter the logs so they show you just what you want. -- Char Jackson |
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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. snip 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. -- remove fred before emailing |
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scbs29 wrote:
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. snip 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. You still have the SMART data to look at in HDTune. To see if the drive is actually healthy. At the very least, you should do a full backup of the disk. You cannot store this on the disk itself, but place it on some other, more reliable disk drive. That is your insurance in case more problems now manifest themselves. I doubt it has anything to do with the files directly. But opening up that space, may have resulted in some defragmented files moving to the space you've opened up, a space with fewer storage problems or something. Paul |
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