14-11-2013, 06:37 PM
Hi all,
My grandads computer gave him some kind of "smart" message telling him his hard disk is going to fail imminently? So he bought a knew one, exactly the same spec, same brand same everything.
Que typical old man moaning that he wanted it to be copied over exactly, so i researched taking a system image, pretty simple following windows things to do it and made a boot disk. So old drive out, new one in, boot from disk, recover from image done all that, took ages. Once that was done it booted up but it was really slow, slow to boot, slow to use, just pretty much un usable.
Again more research and people reccommended a fresh install, so got a copy of windows installed that, took a while but it worked, and once it was running was pretty quick, so i left him to it. He installs his AVG and some printer programs and it slows right down, so i went back to have a look, windows has got a shit load of updates to do, started it on them and the pc is unusable at this point, so i pressed restart and it took about an hour to do 11 updates before it switched off. So then it comes back on with a message about installing updates sometimes it gets stuck at preparing to configure updates sometimes it gets stuck at 35% and others it gets stuck at 70% but it sits there for a while then switches off and starts again and gets stuck at one of those points again. So now im at the point where i cant even boot it anymore and it just seems so painfully slow. I need some help with what to do.
Pc is a HP Pavillion P6 2010UK
Operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Thanks for any help guys xx
My grandads computer gave him some kind of "smart" message telling him his hard disk is going to fail imminently? So he bought a knew one, exactly the same spec, same brand same everything.
Que typical old man moaning that he wanted it to be copied over exactly, so i researched taking a system image, pretty simple following windows things to do it and made a boot disk. So old drive out, new one in, boot from disk, recover from image done all that, took ages. Once that was done it booted up but it was really slow, slow to boot, slow to use, just pretty much un usable.
Again more research and people reccommended a fresh install, so got a copy of windows installed that, took a while but it worked, and once it was running was pretty quick, so i left him to it. He installs his AVG and some printer programs and it slows right down, so i went back to have a look, windows has got a shit load of updates to do, started it on them and the pc is unusable at this point, so i pressed restart and it took about an hour to do 11 updates before it switched off. So then it comes back on with a message about installing updates sometimes it gets stuck at preparing to configure updates sometimes it gets stuck at 35% and others it gets stuck at 70% but it sits there for a while then switches off and starts again and gets stuck at one of those points again. So now im at the point where i cant even boot it anymore and it just seems so painfully slow. I need some help with what to do.
Pc is a HP Pavillion P6 2010UK
Operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Thanks for any help guys xx
Doesnt even own a 306.