Lappy OS

[Hay11Mac]

Hey Guys

My Sister is having some issues with her Lappy.

This is the explantion she gave me of the problem......

OS is Windows 7 Pro

When I shut it down completely it does not want to start back up, it gets to the black screen with the flashing cursor and then won't go any further, I then have to turn it on and off a few times (sometimes says NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND). Eventually it loads up but painfully slow. This only seems to occur on a complete shut down, if you put it to sleep it wakes up ok.

Am thinking maybe the HDD is dying, but I also know it could be a number of things

What do you guys think??

Cheers Hay

 

[Tortuga]

Hey Guys

My Sister is having some issues with her Lappy.

This is the explantion she gave me of the problem......

OS is Windows 7 Pro

When I shut it down completely it does not want to start back up, it gets to the black screen with the flashing cursor and then won't go any further, I then have to turn it on and off a few times (sometimes says NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND). Eventually it loads up but painfully slow. This only seems to occur on a complete shut down, if you put it to sleep it wakes up ok.

Am thinking maybe the HDD is dying, but I also know it could be a number of things

What do you guys think??

Cheers Hay

I had a similar problem with my xps laptop. It ran fine when it was running but I dreaded restarting because the bios and windows took forever to load. Before I even got to the bios it would tell me to restart because its not detecting my power adapter. Id have to restart 3-5 times. After some playing with the power brick...I got it to run like normal. So maybe its an issue with the power brick.

 

[mrapoc]

Do a full scandisk when you can

Even better would be to boot to the recovery console using the install cd or similar. run chkdsk /f I think it is. To make sure have a quick google on the chkdsk command.

Might be worth using fixboot in the same console too. also maybe fixmbr

 

[Hay11Mac]

Thanks guys, will try

 

[TMaksimov]

After that if it still doesn't work you think you could copy vital data to another HDD, format, reinstall win7 and see how it goes? Helped my laptop a lot. Now even my dad wants to use it for work