BrianPotter
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Hard disk File Type NTFS
Windows XP Home Edition
On my laptop the loading of Windows XP would only take around 30 seconds, but now as a result of a “unreadable sector of the hard drive”, now it takes around 1 minute 30 seconds, and also some programs crash to desktop randomly, however the rest of computer is working fine.
I ran an anti-virus programme called AVG as I had many times before and the computer crashed whilst running AVG. Following this tried I to run AVG after reboot, but the programme froze in the same place each time, on a file amongst Cookies stored in the Windows folder on the computer, around where the computer had crashed whilst it was running.
As a result I ran SCANDISK checking “automatically fix system errors” and “Scan for and attempt to recover bad sectors”, when the programme had finished running it stated that certain sectors were damaged and could not be read.
I am assuming this was a result of the anti-virus scanner crash.
It has also affected some DOS-based programmes, making them continually crash to the desktop.
Is there anything I can do to help restore the boot up speed to as it was before?
I have tried the System Restore function on XP without success.
Thanks in advance
Windows XP Home Edition
On my laptop the loading of Windows XP would only take around 30 seconds, but now as a result of a “unreadable sector of the hard drive”, now it takes around 1 minute 30 seconds, and also some programs crash to desktop randomly, however the rest of computer is working fine.
I ran an anti-virus programme called AVG as I had many times before and the computer crashed whilst running AVG. Following this tried I to run AVG after reboot, but the programme froze in the same place each time, on a file amongst Cookies stored in the Windows folder on the computer, around where the computer had crashed whilst it was running.
As a result I ran SCANDISK checking “automatically fix system errors” and “Scan for and attempt to recover bad sectors”, when the programme had finished running it stated that certain sectors were damaged and could not be read.
I am assuming this was a result of the anti-virus scanner crash.
It has also affected some DOS-based programmes, making them continually crash to the desktop.
Is there anything I can do to help restore the boot up speed to as it was before?
I have tried the System Restore function on XP without success.
Thanks in advance