[AT] OT - laptop hard drive

[charlie hill]

Mike before you do anything drastic try this.  Download a free program 
called CCleaner.
Run it and let it clean up the junk files, temp files, etc on your drive. 
Then click on
it's other settings and select registry repair.  Run that.   It's free and 
simple to do
and might help.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 5:09 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - laptop hard drive

Ran Crystaldiskinfo and Seatools, and everything checked out OK. Looks
like it's time for a wipe and reinstall, not something I look forward
to. I know Dave, buy a Mac.......

Mike M


On 11/10/2015 11:44 AM, Len Rugen wrote:
>   Laptops hard drives are usually even easier than desktops.  Windows is 
> like dead animals, it decomposes, after a few years, it's hopeless, about 
> all you can do is format the hard drive and reinstall.
>
> One test, download a "Live CD" of some Linux OS (I'd suggest Zorin).  You 
> can boot and run that without changing anything on your hard drive.  If is 
> is now fast and stays up, you're probably right about it being OS/disk 
> issues.  If it still crashes, it could be ram, cpu or motherboard.
>
> If the system has a good enough CPU and enough memory, I"d suggest getting 
> a solid state disk (SSD).  No moving parts, they are much faster.
>
>
>
>
>       On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:35 AM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> 
> wrote:
>
>
>   Hi all, I have a Dell laptop that is about 8 years old running windows
> 7. I have a hunch that the hard drive may be on it's way out, it takes
> forever to boot, it freezes for no reason, and now I'm getting random
> blue screens that pop up out of no where. I've run every malware and
> antivirus I have and everything is clean. I've installed hard drives in
> desktops before, but never a laptop. How hard is it, and what type
> should I be looking for? Any advantage going with 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm.
> Right now the computer has a 500GB SATA Samsung hard drive; apparently
> Samsung was bought out by Seagate.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Mike M
>
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