I do believe that I exacerbated my own "slow system" problem when I defragged, then defragged again and then shredded the free space with nCleaner. Oh and then I ran Belarc Advisor and messed around in a few of the settings. Why? My clean system was running almighty slow. I had upgraded my RAM and that was no help and I changed my CMOS battery as well. Physically cleaned it with canned air. Nada.
Clicking on desktop items, slow response. Slow response to load personal settings. Well now it is all that and worse. Now it is also super slow to shut down. It takes over 2 minutes for start up or shut down.
I was not able to start the system in safe mode for troubleshooting, so I used my CD and ran R without F2.
I ran E:>\attrib -h -r -s E:\\boot.ini and it didn't find a boot.ini.
I ran E:\Windows>attrib -h -r -s E:\\Windows\boot.ini and it didn't find a boot.ini.
I know it has a damn boot.ini. And no my boot drive is not C.
I successfully copied by boot.bak to both E:> and E:\\Windows.
I read them in bootcfg /list. But when I ran bootcfg/ rebuild, it said it could not find any Windows installation on my system.
I ran chkdsk, and it said it fixed a couple of things. I also ran fixboot. And then fully expecting NOTHING when I exited and tried to start up. But haha. Here I am. Running on NO operating system lol.
I am wondering if I should do system restore or what? I build this computer myself, it is not any "brand" and it was running really well until I got paranoid about the slowness and security settings.
What do you think? I am really worried about the bootcfg not being able to find any Windows. I am thinking about ghosting the drive and then doing System Restore. Feels like I'm working on borrowed time with the HDD maybe.
Clicking on desktop items, slow response. Slow response to load personal settings. Well now it is all that and worse. Now it is also super slow to shut down. It takes over 2 minutes for start up or shut down.
I was not able to start the system in safe mode for troubleshooting, so I used my CD and ran R without F2.
I ran E:>\attrib -h -r -s E:\\boot.ini and it didn't find a boot.ini.
I ran E:\Windows>attrib -h -r -s E:\\Windows\boot.ini and it didn't find a boot.ini.
I know it has a damn boot.ini. And no my boot drive is not C.
I successfully copied by boot.bak to both E:> and E:\\Windows.
I read them in bootcfg /list. But when I ran bootcfg/ rebuild, it said it could not find any Windows installation on my system.
I ran chkdsk, and it said it fixed a couple of things. I also ran fixboot. And then fully expecting NOTHING when I exited and tried to start up. But haha. Here I am. Running on NO operating system lol.
I am wondering if I should do system restore or what? I build this computer myself, it is not any "brand" and it was running really well until I got paranoid about the slowness and security settings.
What do you think? I am really worried about the bootcfg not being able to find any Windows. I am thinking about ghosting the drive and then doing System Restore. Feels like I'm working on borrowed time with the HDD maybe.