What happened to my PC?
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02/01/20 08:10 PM
02/01/20 08:10 PM
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Guitar Jones
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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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.
"Come get your wife"
'92 D250 Club Cab CTD, 47RH conversion, pump tweaks, injectors, rear disc and hydroboost conversion. '74 W200 Crew Cab 360, NV4500, D44, D60 and NP205 divorced transfer case. Front and rear disc and hydroboost conversion. 2019 1500 Long Horn Crew Cab 4WD, 5.7 Hemi.
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: Guitar Jones]
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02/01/20 08:44 PM
02/01/20 08:44 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 16,094 Central Florida
larrymopar360
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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.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: larrymopar360]
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02/01/20 08:48 PM
02/01/20 08:48 PM
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Guitar Jones
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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I don't know. I always use protection seriously, I'm very careful with this computer as I use it for all my financial stuff so no weird sites, click bates or unknown email links.
"Come get your wife"
'92 D250 Club Cab CTD, 47RH conversion, pump tweaks, injectors, rear disc and hydroboost conversion. '74 W200 Crew Cab 360, NV4500, D44, D60 and NP205 divorced transfer case. Front and rear disc and hydroboost conversion. 2019 1500 Long Horn Crew Cab 4WD, 5.7 Hemi.
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: Guitar Jones]
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02/01/20 08:48 PM
02/01/20 08:48 PM
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 701 Northern California
lilcuda
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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. Your hard drive is dying a slow death. If you don't know how to work on computers, take it to someone who does. The longer it runs, the less chance you have to save data that is on it. It might be possible to clone it to an SSD, which will speed up your computer.
'67 is an abbreviation of 1967 67' is an abbreviation of 67 feet They are not interchangeable.
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: larrymopar360]
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02/01/20 08:53 PM
02/01/20 08:53 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 6,840 The Swamp
Sixpak
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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/
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: Sixpak]
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02/01/20 09:05 PM
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Bens_Coronets
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You can often 'recover' a failing hard drive (temporarily) with Steve Gibson Research's Spin Rite software. I'd recomend running that on the drive, if it 'fixes' it, duplicate the drive to a new drive. Once they start to go bad, they won't live long even after fixed. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm$0.02..... Ben
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: Bens_Coronets]
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02/01/20 09:14 PM
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Guitar Jones
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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You can often 'recover' a failing hard drive (temporarily) with Steve Gibson Research's Spin Rite software. I'd recomend running that on the drive, if it 'fixes' it, duplicate the drive to a new drive. Once they start to go bad, they won't live long even after fixed. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm$0.02..... Ben Thanks I will give that a try. I have a SSD in another PC that already has Windows 10 on it. Is that useable? I've been trying to back this up to the cloud but not having any luck doing that.
"Come get your wife"
'92 D250 Club Cab CTD, 47RH conversion, pump tweaks, injectors, rear disc and hydroboost conversion. '74 W200 Crew Cab 360, NV4500, D44, D60 and NP205 divorced transfer case. Front and rear disc and hydroboost conversion. 2019 1500 Long Horn Crew Cab 4WD, 5.7 Hemi.
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: lilcuda]
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02/01/20 10:02 PM
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T2R9
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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. Your hard drive is dying a slow death. If you don't know how to work on computers, take it to someone who does. The longer it runs, the less chance you have to save data that is on it. It might be possible to clone it to an SSD, which will speed up your computer. This. Your drive is going south. SSD's are cheap so try to find someone to clone the contents over to one for you.
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: A12]
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02/01/20 10:40 PM
02/01/20 10:40 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 21,055 in a cattle trailer down by th...
Guitar Jones
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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It looks like everything is backing up to OneDrive so I can retrieve it later. Thanks for all the help!
"Come get your wife"
'92 D250 Club Cab CTD, 47RH conversion, pump tweaks, injectors, rear disc and hydroboost conversion. '74 W200 Crew Cab 360, NV4500, D44, D60 and NP205 divorced transfer case. Front and rear disc and hydroboost conversion. 2019 1500 Long Horn Crew Cab 4WD, 5.7 Hemi.
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: Guitar Jones]
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02/01/20 10:50 PM
02/01/20 10:50 PM
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Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 30,632 Florida STAYcation
IcorkSOAK
Financed his waterbed
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Financed his waterbed
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Some little told me that BANJOones is leaving out some important details...... His PC worked FINE until he went up to West Virginny! THEN it went cRaZy when he got to LooneyVille !
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Re: What happened to my PC?
[Re: AndyF]
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02/02/20 08:38 AM
02/02/20 08:38 AM
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Guitar Jones
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!
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I was able to save most stuff. I lost my favorites, some programs I don't use and my photos but I have most of them stored on a photo storage site so not a big deal. Thanks to all for the help.
"Come get your wife"
'92 D250 Club Cab CTD, 47RH conversion, pump tweaks, injectors, rear disc and hydroboost conversion. '74 W200 Crew Cab 360, NV4500, D44, D60 and NP205 divorced transfer case. Front and rear disc and hydroboost conversion. 2019 1500 Long Horn Crew Cab 4WD, 5.7 Hemi.
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