Windows VERY SLOW - Help Pleasei GUYS,

[OPJ]

Hi guys,

 

It takes nearly 10 minutes to get to Windows (SP SP3) from the moment I start up my PC. It was okay this morning but, since lunchtime, it's been driving me nuts!

 

I get a blank, black screen for about 30 seconds. Then, another blank screen with the mouse cursor. Next is a blue screen, then the welcome screen - all of which just 'hang' there for a good minute.

 

When Windows eventually loads, it's unresponsive for about 5 minutes. I can load up a couple of things but it keeps hanging like this, every 30 seconds or so (even as I type this message, I'm having to continually wait for the PC to 'catch up').

 

Any ideas as to what's going on and what I can do about it???

 

I can't get in to Safe Mode, I just end up with a blank screen and the PC tells me it didn't load properly after I reboot

 

I should mention that I've been getting a message upon startup that tells me oone of my drives needs checking for consistency. The scan would make only 5% progress after 4 hours so, I've been ignoring it ever since...

Strangely, this screen disappeared as of yesterday morning - I assumed everything was fine but, clearly it is not!

 

Thanks for all your help,

 

Olly

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Do your self the biggest favour ever and get your stuff off there NOW.

 

That drive is about to die OPJ. :(

[Dalo Harkin]

Agreed - does it make a 'clicking' noise when its trying to load?

you can sometimes just get that HDD error if you dont shut it down properly, and when it has run itself - all should be ok - unless as Wolfey says the HDD is dying

[OPJ]

Thanks, guys. I've only just read your replies but, after holding on to my patience this problem appears to have sorted itself out...! Windows is starting up fine and I don't get any blue or black screens.

 

When I try to defragment D: though, I get this message:

 

Disk Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: Local Disk (D:)

 

Please run chkdsk /f.

 

(C: is fine, by the way)

 

After running chkdsk /f:

 

The type of file system if NTFS.

Cannot lock current drive.

 

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another . Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

 

I've tried doing this and the scan completes 100% but, then it just hangs there (maybe I should be more patient?).

 

Have I still got a problem?

 

Thanks,

Olly

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Your statement is incorrect Olly.

 

The command line to run a disk check on D: would have been chkdsk D: and if you wanted to fix errors on that drive would have been chkdsk D: /f

 

The reason it's coming back with the message; Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another . Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N), is because it's trying to check an active boot partition.

 

Press Y at that point, reboot and chkdsk will scan the boot partition, ie; Windows.