Alan2273 Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 I recently had a friends Toshiba satellite laptop which would not shut down and kept locking up, to have a look at.I ran sfc/scannow and that cured the shut down problem.However I cannot cure the locking up problem.I ran an AVG rescue disk to check for any virus and that came up clean, I ran memtest and that was also OK.This laptop is 5 years old and runs Vista basic, there is no back up, OS disk or hidden partition so I cannot restore it to factory settings.I tried to download a hard drive test and the laptop locked up, the same happened when I tried to install it from a USB stick.I ran a live Linux CD and it absolutely flies along.The only conclusion I can come to is the Hitachi hard drive is dying.Any one got any other thoughts on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 No obvious answer that I can suggest Alan. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Alan, I just did a bit of a search and came up with this:http://www.justanswer.com/computer/32hrt-toshiba-satellite-recently-started-locking.html ... not sure if it will help, but you never know. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 I would concur the the drive is dead, Alan2273.Vista is hell on resourses (IMO) and multitasking with the OS is janky at best because of it.A new drive and a fresh install of Win7 and I bet it will blaze (up to the time of this posting) untravelled paths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted September 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 Problem solved, it was not a dying hard drive, it was a badly corrupted OS.Apparently he had been using the on/off switch to shut it down every day for the last few months and had corrupted the OS beyond repair.I took the drive out and searched for partitions and saw on which was 5GB's and was not initialized, after making it active it went back in the laptop and a quick press of F8 and there it was the backup partition.It now has a factory reset with 174 updates plus two service packs( which took nearly 8 hours to download and install), and works well again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 That's perseverance par excellence! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 You are a star, Alan; and a very good friend. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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