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Is my hard drive dying? [Solved]
jmk909er:
Thanks Boggin for the tip I installed IOBit and I like it, I will use it. What about all the programs I already deleted before IOBit? Do you recommend I do anything there?
jraju:
Hi, Boggin,
after that please type
diskdrive get status
and press enter
If the status is fine, it will give you OK
Boggin:
--- Quote from: jmk909er on March 01, 2015, 07:57:29 pm ---Thanks Boggin for the tip I installed IOBit and I like it, I will use it. What about all the programs I already deleted before IOBit? Do you recommend I do anything there?
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If you are unable to reinstall them to use IOBit on them, you could use CCleaner's registry cleaner as it is an intelligent cleaner - but uncheck the box for ActiveX and Class Issues before running it and this will clean out the residue.
It may also list a load of missing DLLs - which is normal after a factory reset because the contents of the Recovery partition have an universal install, depending upon on your model and it is okay to let it delete these.
It affords you the option to create a registry back up but this as far as I know, only contains the items it removes and I have yet to be able to restore those items using that back up - perhaps that's something I'm not doing right.
The only sure way to back up the registry is to create a restore point and ensure it remains after a reboot because Win 7 can develop a nasty habit of deleting restore points.
The alternative to using CCleaner and if you are unable to reinstall/uninstall those programs would be to redo the factory reset and all that entails.
I once read that it was advocated to do a factory reset once a year just to clear out the clutter, but given how long it takes for all of the Windows Updates to download and install as well as cleaning out the bloatware and reinstalling your own programs - it's advice I've ignored :smiley:
If you use CCleaner to clear the temp file etc. cache, under the System section uncheck the box for Memory Dumps as they will be needed if you ever get a BSOD - Blue/Black Screen of Death.
Boggin:
--- Quote from: jraju on March 01, 2015, 09:49:18 pm ---Hi, Boggin,
after that please type
diskdrive get status
and press enter
If the status is fine, it will give you OK
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Thanks JR - perhaps you would like to edit your previous post to include that info to make it clearer.
jraju:
Hi,
Thanks boggins. Did jmk apply the commands for his system. I do not know..
Please see my post, I have already included . I specifically mentioned to enter then after each line. Only think i missed was , where it would take that, the directory in your post. So everything is clear.
I am asking jmk because, the ultimate problem is dying hard disk problem reported by him.
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