ONY

I will do Bob....id better start saving now for the new laptop...lol. But i will definitely buy that Hard Drive you suggested, Thank you once again, you've been great but you always have been. :D :D :D

lol...you'd win hands down. :D :D :D

lol...i know bob, my son's one of them. Im forever telling him to cut out the c**p im not one of his punters. To be honest i dont rate that shop at all but i'll make sure i just go for something like you just suggested and ignore the rest of what they say...lol. :D

I agree Bob and thanks for that. Im well aware that laptops are harder to repair as well. I certainly need another Hard Drive to back up everything. They may do a similar thing in PC World too and as my son works there, he gets a 10% discount as well, so that would help. :D

That looks pretty cool. :D

lol, Bob...i think i agree with you on the memory sticks. They seem like a good idea but ive had nothing but problems with them. As for my laptop, ive had it for about 7 years or so. I know in the world of computers that's ancient but it's been pretty reliable to be honest. :D So what sort of price would/should i expect to pay for a new Hard Drive? Im certainly not in a position to afford anything too expensive.

I dont have any external back up im afraid Bob.....last night i did try saving 'MY DOCUMENTS' to a data stick but when it had finished and i checked it, there was about 4 of everything. I tried to delete the extras but it wouldn't let me or if i did manage to delete any, they just came straight back. I then took the data stick out and put it back in again only to find it only had one file on it and i couldn't even open that. So i deleted it and gave up on the data stick...:)

Be prepared for the full write up....lol...here goes: c:\Documents and Settings\User>chkdsk The type of the file system is NTFS WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running chkdsk in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... file verifying completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Index verification completed. CHKDSK is recovering lost files. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... security descriptor verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn journal... Usn journal verification completed. CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap. Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file system. Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these. 15639245 KB total disk space. 7796124 KB in 52981 files. 20324 KB in 5214 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 232501 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 7590296 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 3909811 total allocation units on disk. 1897574 allocation units available on disk. c:\Documents and Settings\User> Sorry for the long post....didn't want to miss anything. :D

OK, Bob...thank you, will do that now. :D

Hiya Bob, just done it and it all seemed to go ok but the last part only stays up on that blue screen for a matter of seconds. I saw it said there were no bad sectors but before i could get to read it all it goes away. Had to do it 3 times but still it goes away far to quick to read it all.

OK, Bob...will do that now. Looks like ive got alot of writing to do...lol Be back shortly and many thanks as always. :D

When i did that check yesterday and got that response, i typed Y and today once i started it up it did some sort of check....cant remember what it all said to be honest. As for the malware tools, they came up clean last night. So should i do that checkdisk again now and reboot and report back?

Hiya Bob, i tried this last night and have just done it again and got the same response which is: c:\Documents and Settings\User>chkdsk /f The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) : Im wondering if this has anything to do with that TROJAN in my last thread because that was what the Malwarebytes found, it was called: Trojan.Downloader c:\System Volume Information\_restore....etc, etc,

Hiya and welcome :D

Hiya and welcome :D

Hiya and welcome :D

Hiya guys, as of yesterday im getting a noise on my computer. It's sort of like a grinding noise. It didn't stay there for long yesterday and it only happened when i started up the computer today. Lasted a couple of minutes or so. Ive looked through a couple of other threads and was wondering, could it be my Hard Drive is failing? Any help would be much appreciated as always. Many thanks, Ony

Thank you also Goku and Tootech, your help is always much appreciated. :D Ony

Hiya Bob, yes she has reported this to the site owner who said he had banned their IP addresses but said it wouldn't actually stop them though. The site/forum is also a vBulletin site so thought there might have been a way to do what you guys do. Many thanks as always, Ony :D

Hiya and welcome :D

Hiya and welcome :D

Thanks Randy, i will do that.....just popped on to update as i said i would. So far so good. Pages and connection seems to be working fine now. So thanks for your help guys. As always it is much appreciated :) Ony

Hi again...just an update, i managed to download service pack3 (which took about an hour an a half)....i then managed to do the Eset scan which found nothing wrong. So far ive managed to bring up the web pages but will update you again later to see if problem is solved or not. I will also perform the other scans again. Will keep you updated though and i thank you as always for your help. Ony

Hiya again, just went on to IE to do the Eset scan and it said i needed to connect to the internet....i clicked connect and it took me to the page. Clicked on agree to terms and conditions, then nothing happened. It wont do anything. :( Ony

Hiya Tootech, thanks for the quick reply, so far i have had to restart the computer only once since posting this thread. I use Spyware terminator as my real time protection. Have done for a couple of years now and it works just fine. I also perform the scans recommended on here weekly. As for connecting to the internet, i have no problem. It's just that error message has started coming up and then refusing to display pages which means i have to restart my computer and start again. I havent done the Eset scan yet but will do so. I just dont understand why this is happening all of a sudden. As for asking me to connect to the internet whilst im already online: well that has only happened a few times after i get that error message and try to bring up a web page. But disconnecting is also a problem as i can only do so by shutting the computer down. I'll go do the Eset scan now, then should i be updating windows or Firefox? By the way, why in safe mode?....as at the moment im online ok...sorry if that sounds thick. Many thanks for your help, Ony