My PC suddenly became extremely slow and my hard drive may be broken.

[Phille Nitsuga]

Last night during the process of downloading a file (a process which I cancelled midway since the computer became unresponsive), my computer started to act strange. I tried ending process via task manager of google chrome due to it being unresponsive. I was still able to browse through my files and use other programs and such, but I only needed to use chrome so I decided to restart my computer. Afterwards, my computer stopped recognizing my secondary hard drive which I have my downloads folder on. My computer, instead recognized my 3tb secondary hard drive as a "system folder" which is uninteractive (I can't even open it or view its properties).

I feared that this could be a hard drive failure and decided to give my computer a rest.

I woke up the next day and the computer can't even boot up. I did the start up recovery and lo and behold it started booting up! Everything seemed like it was back to normal with my files, hard drives, etc are all in place. However the fix was short-lived as I noticed that the boot up time was a LOT slower and it takes forever to even boot up chrome. I can't even empty my recycle bin or uninstall programs. After about 10 mins of fiddling and testing which programs work in my computer, I noticed that I can't access files anymore or even access "my computer." I decided to restart and I'm back to unable to start up. I did the same process again and now I'm back to very slow computer which can't even uninstall and programs or do anything really..

Please help.

I suspect my hard drive is on its way to failure, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. Is there anyway to fix this? I can't even do simple tasks on my computer.

Update: In desperate attempt to get as much files as I can from my computer, I am currently copying pictures to my flash drives and it's transferring in the speed of 600+ kb/s

 

[Brandon-]

Last night during the process of downloading a file (a process which I cancelled midway since the computer became unresponsive), my computer started to act strange. I tried ending process via task manager of google chrome due to it being unresponsive. I was still able to browse through my files and use other programs and such, but I only needed to use chrome so I decided to restart my computer. Afterwards, my computer stopped recognizing my secondary hard drive which I have my downloads folder on. My computer, instead recognized my 3tb secondary hard drive as a "system folder" which is uninteractive (I can't even open it or view its properties).

I feared that this could be a hard drive failure and decided to give my computer a rest.

I woke up the next day and the computer can't even boot up. I did the start up recovery and lo and behold it started booting up! Everything seemed like it was back to normal with my files, hard drives, etc are all in place. However the fix was short-lived as I noticed that the boot up time was a LOT slower and it takes forever to even boot up chrome. I can't even empty my recycle bin or uninstall programs. After about 10 mins of fiddling and testing which programs work in my computer, I noticed that I can't access files anymore or even access "my computer." I decided to restart and I'm back to unable to start up. I did the same process again and now I'm back to very slow computer which can't even uninstall and programs or do anything really..

Please help.

I suspect my hard drive is on its way to failure, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. Is there anyway to fix this? I can't even do simple tasks on my computer.

Hi Phille, try a system restore {restores your computer to an earlier time} Start> Seach> System Restore. You can also check to see if your hard drive is failing here http://www.memtest.org/. It will require a system reboot and take some time to check.

 

[Phille Nitsuga]

Last night during the process of downloading a file (a process which I cancelled midway since the computer became unresponsive), my computer started to act strange. I tried ending process via task manager of google chrome due to it being unresponsive. I was still able to browse through my files and use other programs and such, but I only needed to use chrome so I decided to restart my computer. Afterwards, my computer stopped recognizing my secondary hard drive which I have my downloads folder on. My computer, instead recognized my 3tb secondary hard drive as a "system folder" which is uninteractive (I can't even open it or view its properties).

I feared that this could be a hard drive failure and decided to give my computer a rest.

I woke up the next day and the computer can't even boot up. I did the start up recovery and lo and behold it started booting up! Everything seemed like it was back to normal with my files, hard drives, etc are all in place. However the fix was short-lived as I noticed that the boot up time was a LOT slower and it takes forever to even boot up chrome. I can't even empty my recycle bin or uninstall programs. After about 10 mins of fiddling and testing which programs work in my computer, I noticed that I can't access files anymore or even access "my computer." I decided to restart and I'm back to unable to start up. I did the same process again and now I'm back to very slow computer which can't even uninstall and programs or do anything really..

Please help.

I suspect my hard drive is on its way to failure, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. Is there anyway to fix this? I can't even do simple tasks on my computer.

Hi Phille, try a system restore {restores your computer to an earlier time} Start> Seach> System Restore. You can also check to see if your hard drive is failing here http://www.memtest.org/. It will require a system reboot and take some time to check.

Unfortunately, system restore is unavailable. I will definitely try memtest.org. It seems as though I can't even access websites on my computer nor install or run files... This may be a tough task to accomplish.

 

[Brandon-]

Phille, try this: go to Start> Run> CMD and type the following the command. net user administrator /active:yes

Also, if that doesn't work, try Start> Run> CMD> sfc /scannow

 

[Phille Nitsuga]

Phille, try this: go to Start> Run> CMD and type the following the command. net user administrator /active:yes

Also, if that doesn't work, try Start> Run> CMD> sfc /scannow

Here is the file it produced using your second method.
http://www.speedyshare.com/dBaxw/CBS.log

Thanks Brandon!

 

[Brandon-]

Phille, try this: go to Start> Run> CMD and type the following the command. net user administrator /active:yes

Also, if that doesn't work, try Start> Run> CMD> sfc /scannow

Here is the file it produced using your second method.
http://www.speedyshare.com/dBaxw/CBS.log

Thanks Brandon!

Looks sfc /scannow fixed some files for you, did you get a chance to run memtest?

 

[Phille Nitsuga]

Phille, try this: go to Start> Run> CMD and type the following the command. net user administrator /active:yes

Also, if that doesn't work, try Start> Run> CMD> sfc /scannow

Here is the file it produced using your second method.
http://www.speedyshare.com/dBaxw/CBS.log

Thanks Brandon!

Looks sfc /scannow fixed some files for you, did you get a chance to run memtest?

Not yet as it requires for me to restart my computer right? I am currently trying to salvage what I can at the moment by copying files on my external storage in case that I may not be able to access any of the files in my secondary hard drive. I will do so tomorrow for sure as it's taking a while with a transfer rate of 400 kb/s.

so far it seems that only my secondary hard drive is affected. When browsing through files on my other hard drives, they seem fine and responsive. However, when I start exploring files on my secondary hard drive, it is super slow and unresponsive at times.

 

[Brandon-]

Phille, try this: go to Start> Run> CMD and type the following the command. net user administrator /active:yes

Also, if that doesn't work, try Start> Run> CMD> sfc /scannow

Here is the file it produced using your second method.
http://www.speedyshare.com/dBaxw/CBS.log

Thanks Brandon!

Looks sfc /scannow fixed some files for you, did you get a chance to run memtest?

Not yet as it requires for me to restart my computer right? I am currently trying to salvage what I can at the moment by copying files on my external storage in case that I may not be able to access any of the files in my secondary hard drive. I will do so tomorrow for sure as it's taking a while with a transfer rate of 400 kb/s.

so far it seems that only my secondary hard drive is affected. When browsing through files on my other hard drives, they seem fine and responsive. However, when I start exploring files on my secondary hard drive, it is super slow and unresponsive at times.

Ahh ok, and as for you not being able to access "my computer" try this command in windows powershell.

1. Run powershell as administrator.



2. Paste the following into the PowerShell window:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\ImmersiveControlPanel\AppxManifest.xml

3. Click "enter".

 

[Phille Nitsuga]

Phille, try this: go to Start> Run> CMD and type the following the command. net user administrator /active:yes

Also, if that doesn't work, try Start> Run> CMD> sfc /scannow

Here is the file it produced using your second method.
http://www.speedyshare.com/dBaxw/CBS.log

Thanks Brandon!

Looks sfc /scannow fixed some files for you, did you get a chance to run memtest?

Not yet as it requires for me to restart my computer right? I am currently trying to salvage what I can at the moment by copying files on my external storage in case that I may not be able to access any of the files in my secondary hard drive. I will do so tomorrow for sure as it's taking a while with a transfer rate of 400 kb/s.

so far it seems that only my secondary hard drive is affected. When browsing through files on my other hard drives, they seem fine and responsive. However, when I start exploring files on my secondary hard drive, it is super slow and unresponsive at times.

Ahh ok, and as for you not being able to access "my computer" try this command in windows powershell.

1. Run powershell as administrator.



2. Paste the following into the PowerShell window:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\ImmersiveControlPanel\AppxManifest.xml

3. Click "enter".

Right now I can access everything albeit very slow when it's regarding my secondary hard drive. This is how I'm able to copy the files in my hard drive right now.

I made it so I will use my temp files, appdata, etc on this secondary hard drive that's failing. I believe that's why the computer is behaving slowly. I had to do this because my primary hard drive with my OS in it has limited space of 30GB, barely capable of holding the OS itself. I forgot how I did this, but i vaguely remember forwarding the folders to my secondary hard drive so that it would save it there instead.

 

[Brandon-]

Good to hear Phille, before you run Memtest use this program first. HdTune will check your HDD for errors and see if its "dieing"

http://techlogon.com/2011/03/27/how-to-check-if-a-hard-drive-is-failing/

Post back

Heres the download link http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

 

[Phille Nitsuga]

Good to hear Phille, before you run Memtest use this program first. HdTune will check your HDD for errors and see if its "dieing"

http://techlogon.com/2011/03/27/how-to-check-if-a-hard-drive-is-failing/

Post back

Heres the download link http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

You're awesome! Thank you so much for great responses and feedback. Hopefully if all goes well, I'm able to install the program and check. I will keep you updated!

 

[Phille Nitsuga]

Good to hear Phille, before you run Memtest use this program first. HdTune will check your HDD for errors and see if its "dieing"

http://techlogon.com/2011/03/27/how-to-check-if-a-hard-drive-is-failing/

Post back

Heres the download link http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

While checking for my hard drive's health, I saw "warning" signs on "Reallocated Sector Count" and "Current Pending Sector."

While there's no bad sector, the minimum read speed was 0.0 mb/s which is extremely low. I will update this post with pictures once my flash drive is ready, but I am for sure that this hard drive is barely alive.


UPDATE:

Here are the pictures (please scroll through the images by clicking "first image," "second image," and "third image" :
http://imgur.com/XNpJXU6,MeciwlS,YbTybcV#1

What do you think?

 

[Brandon-]

Good to hear Phille, before you run Memtest use this program first. HdTune will check your HDD for errors and see if its "dieing"

http://techlogon.com/2011/03/27/how-to-check-if-a-hard-drive-is-failing/

Post back

Heres the download link http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

While checking for my hard drive's health, I saw "warning" signs on "Reallocated Sector Count" and "Current Pending Sector."

While there's no bad sector, the minimum read speed was 0.0 mb/s which is extremely low. I will update this post with pictures once my flash drive is ready, but I am for sure that this hard drive is barely alive.


UPDATE:

Here are the pictures (please scroll through the images by clicking "first image," "second image," and "third image" :
http://imgur.com/XNpJXU6,MeciwlS,YbTybcV#1

What do you think?

Hi Phille, that first warning if perfectly normal as long as it doesn't go above 89, you're good. that second warning is big though... try this: start > run> cmd> chckdsk /f