Yesterday out of nowhere my laptop started pausing for 5 or so seconds every 30 seconds to a minute. I've restarted it and that didn't help so I went online looking for a solution, one person recommended turning off the laptop, taking the hard drive and ram out for a few minutes, then turning it back on. I tried it and it is slightly better now with it only pausing during gaming now but that's when I actually care about it pausing. I have no idea what to do and need you're ever so insightful advice.
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ancalimon said:
If the hard drive is the problem with the OP (seems like it may be) then you can just download any program that will basically clean it and remove junk off of it. I got some program called 360amigo that came for free with some AV I got for free for buying some computer part
Actually works pretty good and I still have it installed since it tells me how long it took to boot into windows and even lets you change the order in which things load (plus you can delay things on start so you boot even quicker).
So just get something to wipe all the **** from my HDD? I'm also worried that it's from an incident a week or so ago where my dog kicked the laptop onto the couch and my hard drive came loose, Toshiba laptops are supposed to be good about stopping corruption to data on HDD's but maybe it corrupted a registry file or something. I kind of doubt it was my actual hard drive breaking as the problem didn't show up for a few days after that incident.
Bad sectors might have appeared on your hard drive.
Download a utility that finds and fixes or marks bad sectors from your hdd vendors site (if that vendor has such a utility)
I used the Dos version of a utility burned to disk which I downloaded from Seagate in order to fix one of my hdds with bad sectors and it work wonders (in 6 hours)
Or you can get Hdd Regenerator. It's the best utility to fix your bad sectors.
But still... It seems like there could be a problem with your hdds connection to your computer. Or the head of the hdd might have been damaged in which case you are going to need a new hdd or better yet SDD. In any case backup your important data to another medium.
Download a utility that finds and fixes or marks bad sectors from your hdd vendors site (if that vendor has such a utility)
I used the Dos version of a utility burned to disk which I downloaded from Seagate in order to fix one of my hdds with bad sectors and it work wonders (in 6 hours)
Or you can get Hdd Regenerator. It's the best utility to fix your bad sectors.
But still... It seems like there could be a problem with your hdds connection to your computer. Or the head of the hdd might have been damaged in which case you are going to need a new hdd or better yet SDD. In any case backup your important data to another medium.
What, like Windows' disk check? ...ancalimon said:
Unplug and check the connectors. Then put it back in firmly (but not too hard).
Also, run a chkdsk through command prompt running off of a flash drive or something.
Start > type "cmd" > press enter > type "[insert flash drive letter]:" > type "chkdsk C: /f" > press enter
Last time I had HDD problems it fixed them temporarily.
Also, run a chkdsk through command prompt running off of a flash drive or something.
Start > type "cmd" > press enter > type "[insert flash drive letter]:" > type "chkdsk C: /f" > press enter
Last time I had HDD problems it fixed them temporarily.
Has it been confirmed that it IS the HDD that is the issue or has everyone excluded all other options already?
What OS are you even using? Age of the computer? How much free space on the drive? Fired up task manager in case there's some software running which hogs the cpu on regular intervals?
What OS are you even using? Age of the computer? How much free space on the drive? Fired up task manager in case there's some software running which hogs the cpu on regular intervals?
Let me grab a few drinks and I'll get back to you.
J said:
No, it's not necessarily confirmed. But really, if the entire computer locks up suddenly it couldn't be his CPU unless he's on a single-core without multithreading support. The next obvious culprit would be his GPU, but I doubt he'd be having normal FPS on a GPU that isn't capable of putting pixels on the screen. The next step would be RAM, but I have a hard time believing a RAM stick that takes longer than 500ms to access a bit of data would be functioning at all.
His hard drive seems like the most likely case. It's already the slowest component of any comupter, combined with the fact that a system would lock up when waiting for the hard drive to return data to the system (because it's malfunctioning). It probably is having massive seek times compared to normal, or has to process through corrupted data as someone stated above.
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