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Easy Recovery Essentials searches for viruses and cleans infections on the selected Windows installation. The drive doesn't look terrible, but could use some defragmentation, and I'm not sure how to get around the error. I forgot to Safe Mode, but regular boot time took this long from the welcome screen: 57sec of the welcome screen after I logged in. Did you try a "Clean boot"? Uncheck Automatically search for network folders and printers so windows won't search network on startup.
Tried clean boot, didn't seem to have much effect. Although this "not being able to defrag my C drive" is bothering me a bit. It's defrags about half of it and says I can't defrag the rest of it. Some of what you say especially defragger ending with an error suggests a proper HDD test would be a good idea. That is - a full surface non-destructive read-write test. Download your HDD manufacturers test programs and run the non-destructive read-write test. Obviously, sometimes this will take hours and hours, but might well be worth it in the end.
It would appear that the lion's share of the time is getting to the desktop. I am guessing you have just too many programs running. I'll try that tasklist and a HDD test when I get home today. I really didn't think anything about it until last night, but I also noticed the computer has this ability to freeze up when running a few applications at a time. I was running pandora off Google Chrome, and Left for Dead 2. Computer should have been able to handle it fine, but at one point it got really laggy and froze for several minutes.
This kind of thing doesn't happen all the time, but does happen on a daily basis. I'm not completely sure how the task manager reads CPU usage in comparison to the processes listed, but I've been keeping a close eye on that recently and the CPU usage next to the process list doesn't match the percentage listed under the usage tab.
I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary under the processes tab, As I've stated before, I have done many virus scans before, including scans you can do online, and nothing has been identified as a threat. And I also did a Kapersky rootkit scan recently which also came up clean. It's Task Manager on steroids! And sometimes be very revealing. I'm starting to firmly expect it's a hard drive issue, which should have been my first guess TBH.
I've had this harddrive for a very long time I think close to 6 years , and it would not surprise me if it's life was coming to an end. Also in the processor explorer every time the CPU gets high it's because of interrupts, which i suspect is also the HDD. Before I get into purchasing a new HDD and reinstalling everything, what do you guys think? Could it possibly be something different?
Please note, these tests, and noticing a high use of the interrupt process, were run remotely if that makes a difference. Hard drive is failing 1 fyi Sorry for not posting in a while, it's marching season and our band is struggling with performance. I did a lot of research on the computer the other day and found an article on certain ways a CPU reads information from HDDs. Changing this to DMR fixed my speed issues. Thank you all for all of your help. I consider my problem fixed as I know now what is happening, however, for all the techies, I have one last question.
If I were to copy my C drive windows installation drive exactly file to file over onto another new drive, then booting that new drive as my master after taking out the bad drive, will there be any problems with windows or installations? I assume not since it should be an exact copy. Also do I need a good program for doing that? You need to create an exact disk image copy also called disk "cloning". Here;s one of a few reasons why: Some Windows system files must be located on specific sectors on the disk to be bootable.
Sorry for the double post about just to make sure you see p. You may need to reactivate Windows when you copy the HD. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums.
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