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XP - Fixing errors on startup

  • 22-12-2009 7:19pm
    #1
    Peter B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭


    My laptop with Win XP has started going exceedingly slow. I decided to "Check the volume for errors". This told me it would then complete the job on next startup. When I next started up a lot of error messages started to display on a blue screen background with the windows logo at the top. I started receiving messages such as "Windows replaced bad clusters in file 102298".

    For the first few hours gradually more of these messages have appeared. Today however the message has not changed. I have had the computer on for over 24 hours of which at least 5 hours the screen has not changed.

    Anyone know what I should do? Should I try shut it down and try run the repair boot disk?


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  • #2
    Alearner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭Alearner


    If you have any important data not backed up. That could be a priority. Secondly I suggest that no error messages can be trusted absolutely. If malware has triggered off or caused this message than a certain amount of harm has been done.

    Rebooting to scan with a Linux based antivirus boot disk might make some sense.

    After that, using a repair option might make sense. Remember, that if you have malware on board, then any repair moves could allow the malware to cause more problems.

    A boot disk could be made to scan the hard disk for read / write error. (This could be Linux based. I did it a few days ago myself.)

    After that, if you have no backup needed, then you could run sfc, if you had a relevant system disk to hand.

    If not, then consider restoring the laptop to factory defaults. THIS WOULD WOULD WIPE OUT ALL DATA AND PROGRAMS ADDED SINCE THE COMPUTER WAS BOUGHT.


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