Pc gurus help please!!

[GiT]

CCleaner is all you really need - and keep it nice and crap free with downloads.

 

[LeeRS]

Sweet. Just a few little updates it's doing now and I think we're finally there.

 

[LeeRS]

Or not. Lol.
Disk usage back to 100% when the laptop is running absolutely nothing. I give up.

 

[Simon998]

Hello? Is this thing on?








Perhaps, try that little windows 10 refresh I mentioned at the start of the day. It probably would have saved you doing any of this.

If you can boot into Windows 10, open the new Settings app (the cog icon in the Start menu), then click on Update & Security. Click on Recovery, and then you can use the 'Reset this PC' option. This will give you the choice of whether to keep your files and programs or not.

That should ‘reinstall’ windows and sort your problem if it’s software related, plus you keep all your old files.

 

[LeeRS]

Lol @Simon998 simon99i was trying to be clever and troubleshoot it.
I'm going to do what you said right now.

 

[Simon998]

Christ. I hope that solves it now or I’m going to look a right t**t.

Remember to use www.ninite.com afterward if you need to get any programs back.

Best of luck.

 

[LeeRS]

Well I clicked on get started and it has locked up the laptop lol

 

[Simon998]

It can take a while sometimes. Bare with it. Failing that, do a reboot, close all the programs that are running and try again.

 

[Daz...]

When my missus kept complaining about her laptop I stuck a SSD in it and it solved everything.

I’m yet to see Windows 10 run well on a mechanical drive tbh.

One thing you can try is changing the delivery optimisation in the updates section on settings. It defaults to using your pc for sending files to others on the internet so it runs in the background without telling you.

 

[LeeRS]

Thinking of putting an ssd in tbh. Has run perfectly well up until now. Not sure what has changed.
Are they easy to install?

 

[Simon998]

If all else fails.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10ISO

SSD’s just slide into the bottom of the laptop. You remove an assess panel on the underside, lift the old hard drive up at one side and slide it out. Then pop the new one in. You’ll need to do a fresh install of windows though.

 

[Daz...]

What @Simon998 said.

They’re very easy to install, plus you get to use the old hdd as an external drive if you buy a cheap case for it.

 

[LeeRS]

I see.
Win10 came installed on this laptop, not as a disc. Does that mean I would need to buy windows again?

 

[Daz...]

You should have a sticker on the bottom with the license key on it.

 

[JamesBryan]

Either that or licenses are readily available on eBay for about £3

 

[Simon998]

yeah you’ll have to *cough* find a way to bypass the Microsoft key management system (KMS) or else *cough* purchase a windows 10 key. They’re under a 10er these days

 

[charltjr]

If it's reasonably new and came installed with Windows by the manufacturer then if it doesn't have the key with the machine it should just install and pick up the key automatically, the days of licence keys stuck to things are fading fast.

If it's a hookey copy of Win10 or you bought it second hand and don't know how it was installed, then not so much.

 

[LeeRS]

Was brand new so was already there to install.
I believe it is just stored on a seperate drive?

 

[Daz...]

It won’t be on a separate drive. They make a recovery partition which shows as a different drive when it is all on the same one.

 

[Simon998]

I thought that too charltjr but wasn’t too sure. You should be able to load that windows iso I linked previously and your system will activate it when you log in.

 

[LeeRS]

Just completed the laptop reset and disk drive is still running at 90-100%.
Have done a diskcheck and it says the drive is all ok.
What a ballache.

 

[imprezaworks]

https://jobs.dell.com

 

[Simon998]

Is there any adverse affects when it’s running at max capacity? Is the laptop locking up or anything?

 

[LeeRS]

I can't run 2 things at the same time. Is slow as he'll and has to think about opening things for ages.

 

[LeeRS]

Start-up is taking a long time aswell, it used to be instant.

 

[Simon998]

Sounds like some sort of driver conflict or some other software issue. Usually when a platter hard drive dies, it just dies.

Download windows, download Rufus (program), use rufus to make a bootable USB drive. Turn the laptop off, pop the USB stick in, and it should boot into the windows install. Just do a fresh install. If that doesn’t sort it, it’s hardware related.

 

[Simon998]

Failing that, I’m back from holiday on Wednesday. I can remote access into your laptop and have a look.

 

[LeeRS]

That sounds like a plan buddy. That would be great.
Like I say, I'm not dumb on computers but some things are best left alone before I break the whole bloody thing lol.

 

[Simon998]

Having windows on a usb is a good thing to keep around anyway. Just incase your pc won’t boot.

If you find yourself with a spare 20 mins, try this. It’ll be the first thing I do when I remote in and it’ll save some time.

https://www.howtogeek.com/222532/ho...-system-files-with-the-sfc-and-dism-commands/

 

[LeeRS]

Right,
I have left it on all day and not touched it, let it do it's thing and now it all seems back to normal.
It must have just had a MASS of updates to do which was causing the disk drive to go mental.
Either way, I think I'm going to drop an ssd into it to save having to go through this ever again lol.
I would still appreciate a remote from yourself though @Simon998 simon9if that's still on the cards just to check everything is normal?

 

[Simon998]

Yeah I’ll bounce in for a bit on Wednesday. Shouldn’t be anything too tasking. You should still do that task I posted above. It will find any corrupt or missing files in windows and fix them. Takes a while to run though so I won’t be able to do it on wed.

 

[LeeRS]

Will do when I get home mate. Thanks for your help

 

[imprezaworks]

Get deleting stuff

 

[GiT]

Did you check to see if Superfetch had restarted?

 

[LeeRS]

I have perm disabled it mate. Seems to have been one of the issues so just left it turned off.

 

[GiT]

I have perm disabled it mate. Seems to have been one of the issues so just left it turned off.

Still doing it right now?

 

[LeeRS]

Seems ok now.
I'm going to get an ssd and use the hdd I have now in place of the CD drive. Will run the OS and a few other programs from the ssd and have all pictures etc on the hdd.

Is that a common thing to do?

 

[Simon998]

Seems ok now.
I'm going to get an ssd and use the hdd I have now in place of the CD drive. Will run the OS and a few other programs from the ssd and have all pictures etc on the hdd.

Is that a common thing to do?

Yep. You’ll only have space for one drive in your laptop (usually) so when you pop the ssd in, you’ll need to buy a 2.5” usb hard drive caddy from eBay or somewhere. Then you can use that for storage.

 

[LeeRS]

Just managed to source a Samsung 850 ssd for £40 delivered

 

[Simon998]

Samsung are my favourite brand of SSD. The Samsung magic suite software has a few nice features.

I’m guessing that was a 120gb?