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Notebook freezes
Shane:
Well the download fall is you will need a vista install disk that SP2 already on it, if you have one then you just follow this guide here :wink:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html
Shane
Boggin:
Just going back through the thread - you could perform a chkdsk /r to see what that reports.
I think you would view its report in Vista as you would in Win 7 and this is found in Event Viewer.
Go Start - type eventvwr and press enter.
When it has read the logs expand Windows Logs, click on Application/Action/Find then type chkdsk or wininit into the Find box.
Cancel the Find box and read the log in the scrollable window.
Primarily you will be looking for any KBs in bad clusters.
If that comes back clean as well as saying it has fixed everything and no further action necessary, then see how it runs but as you have an OEM machine, you may have a Recovery partition which will allow you to factory reset the laptop after backing up all of your personal stuff.
Nomad:
Shane I do not have a Vistal instal disk with SP2 or any kind of Vista instal DVD, I just have a recovery partition (E:) in the same disk were C: partition is.
Boggin, the usual problem with CHKDSK C: /r in my notebook is that it does not end, so, till now I had no result from that action, except once, a long time ago.
For now, it seems to me that I could only try to run a CHKDSK /r to the C: partition hard disk after taking it off the notebook and plugging it to another laptop with an adapter, which I still didn't get. But I don't know whether this would work, can somebody explain this point?
Thanks again
Boggin:
That's the problem with such a long thread, you forget what's gone on before.
I don't have time to go back through the thread at the moment, but have you tried chkdsk without any parameters ?
If you can back up your personal stuff and create a full external system image as a fall back, I guess you could go ahead with a factory reset.
Nomad:
Right Boggin, let me do a summary:
Notebook HP Pavilion dv9890EP, Vista Home Premium 32 bit, bought 6 years ago, all original, 2 hard drives (1 with 2 partitions, C: is O.S., E: is a recovery partition; the other HD is single-partitioned, D:, data).
Problems (3):
(1) for a long time till last March 19th it used to freeze completely about once a fortnight, although temperatures and memory didn't show abnormal levels;
(2) since 2011 never completed both CHKDSK C: /r and CHKDSK D: /r, dropping out in the process.
(3) it was common (about once every 3 days) immediately after booting, having endless waits, the waiting circle spinning around; doing Ctrl+Alt+Del to call the task manager never worked because I could ever stop any process, task manager never responded.
Actions since last March 19th:
BIOS memory test concluded OK;
CHKDSK C: /f shows 0 KB in bad sectors;
HD Sentinel shows no problem;
after running CCleaner Drive Free Space Wiper on C:, CHKDSK C: /r still drops out;
after updating BIOS version, CHKDSK C: and D: /r still drop out.
In April 3rd, BSOD occured, and I recovered the notebook with a Macrium Reflect image.
Installed "Gsmartcontrol" and tried to run it, but BSOD happened, twice.
I found an old arquived CHKDSK C: log from September 2011 showing that back then there were 4 KB in bad sectors.
As I said before, nowadays it doesn't show any KBs in bad sectors.
This notebook didn't come with a Vista install disk, but after buying it I burnt recovery disks (2 DVDs) of the whole factory image, according to instructions (I believe at the time I had not SP2 installed yet). I never used them, I don't know whether they are usable after all these years. Would them be helpfull now?
As Shane said, there is the possibility of taking off the D: disk and plug it to a laptop with a SATA to USB adapter to try a CHKDSK /r; would it work with the C: disk as well?
Thank you all
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