Hello everyone,
Recently I've been having some problems with my PC freezing from a few seconds up to a minute sometimes (during which if I had a video file playing in VLC, the audio would loop and the video would stop). I thought I caught some nasty virus so I decided to format and reinstall Windows.
I usually install Windows from a bootable USB made with Rufus, but this time it wouldn't work. It just wouldn't boot from USB, even though I had followed the exact same steps as before. The only thing different is that, for some reason, my flash drive appeared in BIOS as "Removable device" and not as "TOSHIBA TransMemory 8GB" like before.
So I decided I would install Windows from DVD. I knew something was wrong when it took an unusual amount of time to install. It would usually take me around 20 minutes, but now after 30m it was still expanding files. Then I got an error message. I tried it again with a different Windows DVD, but I got the same error message (linked below).
System Specs
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
RAM: 4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 312MHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 1 GB DDR5
HDD: 298GB Western Digital WDC WD32
Motherboard: ASUSTeK M2N MCP61
Display: BenQ GL2250H
Power supply: 350W
Other things worth mentioning
Screenshots
Error message 1 - This is the error message I get every time.
Error message 2 - This one I got when it attempted to rollback I think (the window is called rollback.exe) From what I remember, it was showing different corrupt files the first time, but I didn't take any pictures.
Anyone has any idea what could be the issue?
Recently I've been having some problems with my PC freezing from a few seconds up to a minute sometimes (during which if I had a video file playing in VLC, the audio would loop and the video would stop). I thought I caught some nasty virus so I decided to format and reinstall Windows.
I usually install Windows from a bootable USB made with Rufus, but this time it wouldn't work. It just wouldn't boot from USB, even though I had followed the exact same steps as before. The only thing different is that, for some reason, my flash drive appeared in BIOS as "Removable device" and not as "TOSHIBA TransMemory 8GB" like before.
So I decided I would install Windows from DVD. I knew something was wrong when it took an unusual amount of time to install. It would usually take me around 20 minutes, but now after 30m it was still expanding files. Then I got an error message. I tried it again with a different Windows DVD, but I got the same error message (linked below).
System Specs
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
RAM: 4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 312MHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 1 GB DDR5
HDD: 298GB Western Digital WDC WD32
Motherboard: ASUSTeK M2N MCP61
Display: BenQ GL2250H
Power supply: 350W
Other things worth mentioning
Before formatting, I ran memtest to see if it was a RAM problem, but it found nothing wrong.
The GPU was replaced a week ago. Old one was ATI RADEON HD 2600. I considered some kind of compatibility issue, but it worked fine for a week.
A second error message told me to run chkdsk. I did so from the command prompt. I ran it twice. First time it found and supposedly fixed some issues regarding orphaned files.
The second time I decided to delete and recreate the partition. For some weird reason, it seems that Windows assigned the drive letter C:\ to its System Reserved partition (the 100 MB one) and now the system partition is H:. (see error message 2). Any way to change that? I ran chkdsk a second time and it found nothing wrong, but as I was typing this I figured I ran it for C:\ and not H:\ so it probably scanned the system reserved one.
Screenshots
Error message 1 - This is the error message I get every time.
Error message 2 - This one I got when it attempted to rollback I think (the window is called rollback.exe) From what I remember, it was showing different corrupt files the first time, but I didn't take any pictures.
Anyone has any idea what could be the issue?
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