Originally Posted by larrymopar360
Originally Posted by Guitar Jones
It wouldn't wake up one day. Was working fine the day before. So I held the power button down until it shut off, turned it back on and it took forever, like 7 hours to boot back up. The screen said it was reparing disk errors. So it is working again but is super slow, really super slow. I'm thinking the hard drive failed as I don't hear it wirring anymore.
I'm far from an expert, but maybe malware? You can try ccleaner.com There's a free version and it COULD fix it. I've use that several times over the years, after our IT guy recommended it as a very trustworthy tool.

CCleaner got hacked a few years ago. I haven't trusted it since. To the OP - run whatever anti virus and spyware programs you have and then back up what you can NOW before the disc dies altogether. If it has a recovery partition you may be able to install a new HD and reinstall the operating system and originally installed programs back to its original state when you bought it. If the system boots up to Windows the HD hasn't died, yet. If you have good system backups of your system then a new hard drive and restore your system from one of those back ups.

https://www.howtogeek.com/326742/ccleaner-was-hacked-what-you-need-to-know/