Asedion if you look at Crystal Disk Info screenshot he posted then you would see that he has Hitachi drive..
I would do as gigabusterEXE says..
Is that cpu supported by he mobo?
The hard drive is an hitachi drive.
I was going to start backing it up this morning,and found it saying "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" so i think the drive has died.
I was going to mention this plus the HDD clutter/failure chatter that's going on down the line in the thread. If your mom's anything like mine, then there's alot of 'interesting' pieces of software that have made their way onto the system. I don't know how many times I've had to remove tool bars, and restore the trimmed down settings I put on her laptop.
OK you should not run the back up from her computer. The drive doesn’t need any unnecessary stress. Do not boot your Windows OS until you recover data.
You can do two things:
1)Create a UBCD (Google “ubcd”) USB stick or CD if your stuck in the past. Use any OS that will allow you to mount the partition. Copy her files to another disk or USB stick. Go after what is important: Her pictures, Documents ETC. You do not need to run a full back up as with relocation count will just continue to grow until something fails.
2) Use your Windows OS (mount as an additional drive) and get the file you need. This is my second choice because Windows like to scan the drives files to decide what shortcuts it shall provide. You can cancel it quickly; however, you don’t want to put any unnecessary stress on it.
You can buy the same drive and create a clone afterwards. I would get a better drive, newer OS and maybe a better processor since she is far behind.
PS: screw Hitachi!
Well, i installed a temp drive(which i am 99% sure it was good) and it also said at first it would only say"A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" when we were trying to boot from usb,but while i wast running somewhere my brother in law messed with the bios and rebooted it a few times it got it to work,then we got vista reinstalled for her,i installed the drivers for her usb wi-fi card(was there before the problems started) and was in the middle of setting it up,i also had windows explorer open,and WMP to make sure the sound was working.
Then it BSOD and said "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" agian, i restarted it agian and agian and nothing,i left for work and my brother in law got it to boot again,i just asked him and he told me he got it to run agian by unplugging a usb hard drive that was hooked up,but he doesn't think it is causing the problem,cause even after leaving it unplugged,it has been running slow,and feels like it is bogged down,despite the fact that it is a fresh install,plus to do the install we ended up downloading the exact same verison of vista that she had,and installed it using her key,so it does not have all the HP bloatware to bog it down.
What could be casuing the problem? My brother in law(works for a server hosting company)thinks it might be the sata controller might be going out,or mabye just the sata port that it is plugged into.
What do you guys think?
It could be the port, it could be the controller, the point is that it sounds like a motherboard issue and once one thing starts to go others will follow, eventually. Honestly, Vista was a resource hog as it is, so if you Can, then I'd say grab 7 after you get the board replaced.
is it even worth it to replace the board on a pc that old? i don't have an extra lying around lol.
*reads links this time*
Oh! Well then. :-p
You could preserve most of that if you wanted, but you'd likely have to replace the board, cpu, ram in the process. I guess it depends on whether you'd rather do that just buy a cheap new one and throw some of the parts from this into there. I'd look at what she'll realistically do with it first and go from there to determine your desired expenses.
Ok, i was testing around with her pc at first in windows,and the way it was lagging for me was i would have to most of the time,double or triple click(sometimes more)just to do any thing,i was thinking since the gpu drivers were not installed and WEI scored the gpu at 1.0 because of it,and vista was trying to run aero,i decided to try and install the driver and half way trough the install i had little to no lag from the driver install program,but other programs were still lagging,also i noticed that with resource monitor open,it took it 30-45 seconds to close out something i had up.
The i shut down,and i decided to check the bios,and i noticed the SATA ports were set to RAID,so i thought mabye that is the problem,so i change to AHCI,and it starts to boot and asks if i want to start windows normally,or in safe mode,and if i pick either it will reboot and do the same thing, i then tried IDE mode,and it did the same thing,it will only boot if set to RAID.
If it helps the drive i let her till i can get her another is a 2TB Hitachi drive,and crystal disk info says it is good.
The ACHI is correct, but in order to get Vista to adjust you'll likely need to hit F8 to boot into safe mode. Once in there, goto device manager, uninstall the HDDs listed and tell it to look for new devices. Honestly though, you're better off running XP or 7 as Vista IS a resource hog, even with AERO turned off.