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2:58 am
December 18, 2011
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gabuchia
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Dear all, here are some of the questions I would like to ask, but first, the specs of my comp:
Operating System : Windows 7 (64-bit) Home Premium
I have been using, perfectdisc 12, as my defragging program
But today, while I was defragging my programs, I accidentally restarted my computer. After that, it won't boot up anymore. I had to tap on F8 while it's booting, and select 'start windows with last known configuration'
but then, it seems that my computer now runs quite slow, in terms of booting up. Is there anyway to check
if my hard disc have been corrupted through the process of restarting my computer, while perfectdisc was still running.
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7:58 pm
December 18, 2011
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Kazuki
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I would suggest that you do the following.
1. Open the Start Menu and open Command Prompt or Run "cmd"
2. In the command prompt, type the command chkdsk /f (That will automatically try to repair any file system errors)
or
3. In the command prompt, type the command chkdsk /r (That will repair file system errors as well as scan and try to recover bad sectors)
After that, you should be okay since your computer does boot up. You can also get to the command prompt by booting in Safe Mode /w Command Prompt and type those same commands. Hope it works! I have never used perfectdisc myself since I have had such good experience with SmartDefrag.
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8:47 am
December 19, 2011
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Craig Chamberlin
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First, welcome to the forum :)
I don't have any experience with PerfectDisc 12 when it comes to defragging a hard drive. Defragmentation software is everywhere these days and I personally use Defraggler Free Defragmentation Software to run defragmentations on my drive.
The PerfectDisc software looks to be legitimate and has received good reviews, so it is unlikely there are any fraudulent issues going on there with poorly designed software.
Kazuki recommended the most essential first test to making sure your hard drive did not incur any damage to the sectors while the defragmentation was occurring. Let us know what your results are from there.
Issues that can occur from crashing during defragmentation are minimum. Typically these software packages are very good about keeping information in the system cache and finalizing the rewrite after all checks have occurred. In other words, it typically does a very good job of not causing system stability issues.
I would be surprised if the root cause of your problem was actually the defragmentation and not some other software or service conflict occurring in the background. For issues such as these I always recommend individuals go through one of my free optimization video guides.
I am not sure what operating system you are using but you can watch optimize your Windows XP operating system free with my Faster XP video series, you can optimize your Windows Vista operating system free with my Faster Vista video series or you can optimize your Windows 7 operating system free with my Faster 7 video series.
Each series has short step by step instructions to optimizing your operating system – this may help to resolve your issue as well.
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10:58 am
December 25, 2011
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gabuchia
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Post edited 11:08 am – December 25, 2011 by Kazuki
(Post from gabuchia mirrored here)
This is a follow up from the previous post I mentioned, which to my dismay, has been moved, and am not sure where is it.(Edit by Kazuki: Moved Post to previous post)
So it goes like this, while defragging, I had a power cut, hence it led me to believe my hard disc was somehow corrupted, due to the fact that I had to restart my laptop around 7 times to get it to boot into windows.
Now using a hard disc checking utility, I have gotten this,
everything is ok, except these 2 yellow dots! Please do help me identify, on what I am able to do
to remedy this! Thanks!
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4:30 pm
December 25, 2011
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Craig Chamberlin
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Did you run the checkdisk /f ? If there are indeed bad sectors or a bad sector count it will let you know whether or not the errors were fixed by the scandisk utility.
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7:25 pm
December 26, 2011
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gabuchia
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I was not able to run checkdisk /f yet. But I have tried checkdisk /r, it took a very long time, and I saw a few sectors that were unreadable.
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12:52 pm
December 27, 2011
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Craig Chamberlin
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1:10 am
April 20, 2012
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benleonad
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Hi, I am using windows xp since 2 year now I want to upgrade my operating system without formatting my old windows. What is the procedure for it, I tried calling IT support st Albans executives and they said that I can use cd for this purposes. Do you think this is a right procedure?
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11:29 am
April 20, 2012
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Craig Chamberlin
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You could upgrade from an old to the new, but I would recommend a fresh installation of a brand new copy of Windows 7 due to possible performance issues from the upgrade. Make sure you back everything up before doing this.
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