Laptop Slow Upon startup?

sjh01 · Feb 18, 2014

[/URL][/img]about a year ago i bought a Toshiba C855 Satellite Laptop. soon after i bought it it started staying at this screen (see picture) but without any accounts. I have lived with it for about a year and after i click my account it loads fine but i have to wait before i can do anything. Seems like it is "warming up." I had an idea about putting a new hdd in it and reinstalling Win 7, is that a good idea? I would like a recommendation for a 500GB laptop hdd that is good quality and good price. I have an hdd (not new) but when i put it in and put in the windows install disk, the screen where you select the drive, it doesnt show. Any help is greatly appreaciated

drtweak · Feb 18, 2014

Download and run the Crystal Disk Info in my link and then post back if it say anything besides "Good" and if anything is yellow or red tell me what it is. Then we can work from there.

sjh01 · Feb 18, 2014

Which edition?

sjh01 · Feb 18, 2014

There is a yellow "current pending sector count" line

drtweak · Feb 18, 2014

Ok do this for me. Lcik on Function at the top then to Advanced Features then Raw Values and then 10 Hex. What is the Raw Values the Current Pending Sector count on the far right of that line? Also current pending sector counts are pretty much bad sectors. Those are spots its trying to read from but can't to try to recover the data. If it can't recover them after so many times it becomes an Uncorrectable Sector Count which is a Bad Sector.

sjh01 · Feb 18, 2014

Ther is not a 10 hex, just a 16 hex, 10 dec, 10 dec 2byte, 10 dec 1byte. i am using the 5.6.2 version if that helps

drtweak · Feb 18, 2014

OH yea my bad. 10 DEC XD

sjh01 · Feb 18, 2014

the number is 152

drtweak · Feb 18, 2014

Yea that's not good. Backup your data, buy a new hard drive. You will have to reinstall windows and all your programs as well. That drive is on its way out. That is also why its being so slow.

sjh01 · Feb 19, 2014

Well nothing is so important i cant just google it and find easily, just savegames and mods. I can just throw them on a flash drive. Would i have to download the wifi drivers beforehand or should they be on the a disk? Thanks for your help can i pm you if i have any problems?

drtweak · Feb 19, 2014

If its a brand name PC and it came with a Recovery Disk then you don't need to get anything before hand. If its not a name brand PC or if it didn't come with a restore disk then yes you will want to download the network drivers just in case. Now if it didn't come with a restore disk then it probably has a recovery partition on the hard drive which you restore from which is kinda useless to us now. You may have to contact the maker and ask for a Recovery DVD from your model. I'm pretty sure Toshiba uses Recovery partitions too.

sjh01 · Feb 19, 2014

I have a windows 7 install disk from my neighbor, and a recovery disk made on the laptop, which one do i need?

drtweak · Feb 19, 2014

The install disk your neighbor gave you won't work unless its for the same laptop because you will need to activate it if its not made for the laptop and they key on your laptop will not work espically if the disk he gave you is for another laptop maker.

If you made a recovery disk use that one. If its been a while since you made it i would suggest 1) Backing up your data to an external device first and then 2) make a new recovery disk. Then install the new hard drive, boot from the recovery disk, and follow the instructions.

drtweak · Feb 19, 2014

Actually strach that. If you can go to the Backup and Restore and then on the left hand side click on Make a System image. this will make an exact copy of your stuff as it is and save it to another hard drive then you can restore it from there or use DVD's to burn them to. You will still need the Startup Recovery Disk just in case. If you can't boot from the System Image then boot from the Recovery disk and then select the restore option. Then put in the First disk of your System Image or connect the USB drive that you saved it to and follow the instructions to restore the system.

sjh01 · Feb 20, 2014

Well i have a bunch of 700mb dvd's, so I don't prefer that. I will just backup some stuff to a usb because I don't want everything back, there is a lot of junk on there so I want a "fresh" system. Can someone link me to the version of WinRAR that does not install snap.do with it?

drtweak · Feb 20, 2014

Never had winrar install Snap.do for me. Just when you install it make sure on the Accept and Decline stuff that your not actually accepting snap.do. You can deny that. If not let me know i got a link to version 3.93 that i use

sjh01 · Feb 22, 2014

I got it fixed, i found some hard drive but forgot to change the boot order! I changed it and it worked. Got some of my programs back but waiting to go to town and get the rest because we have metered internet.

drtweak · Feb 22, 2014

Good to hear!

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