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Notebook freezes
Boggin:
Have you tried the chkdsk in Safe Mode and while it can be inconvenient, do you get any freezes in Safe Mode with Networking ?
While a sfc /scannow would tell you if there is any file corruption, you can use Seatools to check the actual disks.
There's Seatools for Windows and you create a bootable disk to run Seatools for DOS without the need to remove the drives.
You can use ImgBurn to create the bootable disk as well as one for Memtest86+.
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/246994-guide-to-using-memtest86/
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/memtest86_ffaa.html
http://filehippo.com/download_imgburn
Shane:
--- Quote ---Have you tried the chkdsk in Safe Mode and while it can be inconvenient, do you get any freezes in Safe Mode with Networking ?
--- End quote ---
When chkdsk is ran it cant be done while windows is loaded and so will run before windows starts up.
He drive stops responding through the scan, which makes me think bad motherboard since he has 2 drives that do it.
One way to be sure it isnt Windows for some reason (After all it is still loading drivers into memory to access the drive) is to boot off a Windows PE cd or something like that and run a chkdsk on the drive from outside Windows itself.
If the drive STILL drops out and it does it to both drives then it is a bad motherboard. If it scans find and doesnt drop out then the Windows install is the problem and a fresh install will be needed. :wink:
Shane
Boggin:
The Seatools for DOS that I've linked will do the disk check externally.
Nomad:
Thanks Boggin for the tools' links provided.
Well, Seatools DOS test to the C: drive resulted OK (but so had been before with HD Sentinel).
I still didn't use Memtest86, as I have tested memory before with the BIOS and it passed.
It seems to me that following Shane's idea would be a good path, but I still do not quite understand the process of creating a Windows PE booting CD, though I tried to get information.
As I see from what I read, I should download a WAIK file, burn it to a CD or DVD, and then execute and install it from the CD/DVD to a directory in my notebook; is it so or did I get it wrong? Having a booting CD/DVD ready, why must I install whatever in the computer? Can you help?
Nomad
Boggin:
I think Memtest86+ may stress the memory more than Windows so it may still be worth running as other than overheating, RAM failure for whatever cause is probably the next best thing to check.
Having skip read through https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766093(v=ws.10).aspx I'm not really sure as to the benefits of this over a Repair disk, but this article may help with creating the bootable CD - if you aren't already reading from it. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749311(v=ws.10).aspx
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