- Jan 4, 2015
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Hi,
My 4 year old Dell XPS 15 L501x has been running into problems lately.
I performed a hardware scan recently and the Harddrive failed a few tests. Everything else seemed fine. Ran a HDDScan test as well and it had 141 bad sectors.. Was planning on buying an SSD soon.
Anyway..I was working on my laptop this morning and wanted to restart because it was feeling a little slow...turns it out it can't load to the log on screen now..it's just veeeeeeery slow.. Safe mode gets stuck while it's loading the drivers and throughout all of this, there are lots of lines of colours at the very top of the screen.
I'm just wondering what you lot think this issue could be. I really hope it's the hard drive and not anything else which I can't solve easily such as a graphics driver.
What if there's a bad sector in system32 and can't load windows?
I have several imminent deadlines and am quite scared now..I would really appreciate some advice, thank you very much
(And yes, I've backed up most of my files already.)
Possibly relevant information
- there was an external HDD connected when the problem first arose
- during the restart, windows was installing updates and I powered off the computer as it seemed to have stalled
My 4 year old Dell XPS 15 L501x has been running into problems lately.
I performed a hardware scan recently and the Harddrive failed a few tests. Everything else seemed fine. Ran a HDDScan test as well and it had 141 bad sectors.. Was planning on buying an SSD soon.
Anyway..I was working on my laptop this morning and wanted to restart because it was feeling a little slow...turns it out it can't load to the log on screen now..it's just veeeeeeery slow.. Safe mode gets stuck while it's loading the drivers and throughout all of this, there are lots of lines of colours at the very top of the screen.
I'm just wondering what you lot think this issue could be. I really hope it's the hard drive and not anything else which I can't solve easily such as a graphics driver.
What if there's a bad sector in system32 and can't load windows?
I have several imminent deadlines and am quite scared now..I would really appreciate some advice, thank you very much
(And yes, I've backed up most of my files already.)
Possibly relevant information
- there was an external HDD connected when the problem first arose
- during the restart, windows was installing updates and I powered off the computer as it seemed to have stalled
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