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Kurt
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24th Apr 07 at 18:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
my laptops been running a little slow recently so i ran a scandisk and restarted, grabbed a shower came back and it was on 0% still so i reset it, bad idea! next thing i know, disk error press any key to restart :laysabrick:
so i had to change it to boot from the cdrom

but yeah i seem to have 69 processes running any programs that can sort the ones that a crap?

[Edited on 24-04-2007 by kurtofcc]

p.s its windows xp

[Edited on 24-04-2007 by kurtofcc]
Kurt
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25th Apr 07 at 08:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ok so two mins after i wrote this it crashed and burned... anyone know how to fix a disk error? or is my harddrive fubared?
Jules
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25th Apr 07 at 08:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
TBH it sounds like HDD is borked

But Re. the 69 proceeses running thing, I suspect you have a lot of these starting on bootup - that can be changed in msconfig
topshot_2k
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25th Apr 07 at 08:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
virus? spyware etc

use sytem recovery disk and restart in safe mode, run your virus/spyware programs then restart in normal mode
Cole
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25th Apr 07 at 08:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
hi dave you working
topshot_2k
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25th Apr 07 at 10:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yes mate until thursday night
Kurt
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25th Apr 07 at 12:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i cant get the backup disc to work again
topshot_2k
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25th Apr 07 at 12:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
wont even boot into safe mode??
Kurt
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25th Apr 07 at 12:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
how do u get it into safe mode? it loads its pentium screen bios thing that you can press f2 on and change a few options on then goes to a black screen and after a minute says disk error, press any key to restart
topshot_2k
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either F5 or F8 on startup i think, brings up a menu and select safe mode
Kurt
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25th Apr 07 at 12:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
will give that a go tonight i think, cheers
drax
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try hijackthis good for killing off processes from bootup

 
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