so for awhile it's taken quite awhile for my laptop to boot up (lets say 5 minutes for a low average), temporary solution was simple: never actually power down the machine, now i'm getting worried and actually have the time to fix it
in windows system event viewer error logs i get a shit-ton (yes that's a number) of disc errors at startup (lots of: The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.), run windows error checker and it reads zero issues, run hd sentinal and it shows good (79% health)
i have another drive to replace this with (was planning on replacing it months ago, haven't fully used up my last free gigabyte), but the transfer will take awhile so i want to know if this is probably a disc problem (and it will be fixed) or if it is a corrupted sys files problem (and i will have wasted quite a bit of time)
also assuming it is the disc, i'm getting a good disc health reading so will it be usable after a format?
79% health isn't good. Anything under 100 shows that /something/ bad has happened to cause it to degrade to that percentage. I would back up. Then install the new one.
ccleaner and i have a bad history, it only seems to delete the things that make my system function properly, been avoiding it like the plague for years
hehe yeah it used to be pretty bad, got better over the last few months/years tho, its your call tho, its been pretty good to me , just make sure you leave the default options ticked and it should be fine, it will probably require you imputing you passwords again for site etc. Only time it gets a bit weiord is when you click all the tick box's then it does stuff you really dont want or need it to do
so, funny story, i copied everything for that drive onto my osx drive (it's been partitioned and ready for months, i just havn't had the time), of course it didn't want to boot up so for the past few days i've been working with a windows recovery disk, been trying a bunch of different ideas along with trying to just let windows recovery do its thing, until this morning the drive was fuctioning just fine in osx and showing no errors, last night i believe i just let recovery do its own thing after getting a fresh copy of the boot partition to see if that was causing issues, when i woke up and checked it had finnished (i'm not sure exactly what it said, but it may have been that the recovery failed (again) and it may have been due to a hardware problem), i restart the computer and before it even attempts to boot from usb or cd i get a message sating that smart has detected critical errors, i boot up on the old drive with the new one hooked up via usb and open sentinal and it days the same thing (something like 1120 weak sectors), boot into osx on the new drive open disk utility and i'm greeted with another bad drive message (just to make sure it's not an error)
i would not have been massivly surprised if i had killed the drive at any other point, when it was just laying around not being exactly cared after, when it's slipped out of my hand, when i've disconected it with abit too much force, but for the love of god it was sitting inside a laptop that never moved all night, and to top it all off i don't really have the money for a new drive (as i doubt samsung/seagate will honor a warenty on what's likely a scatched platter, and if they do how long will it take and how much hassel will it be), and i'm pretty sure i'm going to be back where i started on the hackintosh as i don't have another mac to save the files from this drive to other than a virtual machine on the filled to the brim and dying old drive