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Shenl742
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More : typing this on my phone, which I usually never do, but all my browsers are crashing so I don't really have a choice.
So my computer seems fubar. Kind of hard for me to parse that but I'll try.
It's been acting slow/sluggish/tempermental for awhile even when opening the tiniest of documents, but things came to ahead yesterday when I got straight up blue screens of death during start up. I didn't write any of the errors down but it,was boot file related. Somehow managed to circumvent that and now it just boots up like regular but when I get to the desk too it straight up takes several minutes for any icons to load up
Been kind of panicking so I've been moving as much important stuff I can to backup drives, which has been taking awhile since several times the transfers would just randomly slow down of even go all the way down to zero. I swear I even saw it happen a few times when I was recycling stuff.
I've been trying to create a restore drive on a thumb several times but it says I can't.
And right now as I type this my bro set screen has gone black except for clock and start icon.
I don't know what to do. The laptop is a Toshiba with Windows 10 and is just a year old. I'm considering just going nuclear and just resetting the whole thing but I don't know where I would start with that it if it would be the best option.
I'm an online med student with homework do and I'm legit scared here and need to get this worked asap. Any advice (even if it's just take it to a shop) would be appreciated
So my computer seems fubar. Kind of hard for me to parse that but I'll try.
It's been acting slow/sluggish/tempermental for awhile even when opening the tiniest of documents, but things came to ahead yesterday when I got straight up blue screens of death during start up. I didn't write any of the errors down but it,was boot file related. Somehow managed to circumvent that and now it just boots up like regular but when I get to the desk too it straight up takes several minutes for any icons to load up
Been kind of panicking so I've been moving as much important stuff I can to backup drives, which has been taking awhile since several times the transfers would just randomly slow down of even go all the way down to zero. I swear I even saw it happen a few times when I was recycling stuff.
I've been trying to create a restore drive on a thumb several times but it says I can't.
And right now as I type this my bro set screen has gone black except for clock and start icon.
I don't know what to do. The laptop is a Toshiba with Windows 10 and is just a year old. I'm considering just going nuclear and just resetting the whole thing but I don't know where I would start with that it if it would be the best option.
I'm an online med student with homework do and I'm legit scared here and need to get this worked asap. Any advice (even if it's just take it to a shop) would be appreciated
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Once in the menu you should be able to select a type of system restore.
If the option exists, you can try restoring without formatting. I would almost certainly say this is a waste of time as it sounds like you've got the internet herpes.
The better, more satisfying option is restore factory defaults. It will go through the process of formatting the drive and reinstalling the factory default operating system. You will lose everything not backed up to a cloud service or on some other media.
Edit: Or you can go to Office Depot or Best Buy and pay someone 300$ to do what I just wrote.
I would check and see if you are out of disk space and run disk cleanup too. windows running out of room can cause all sorts of weird issues.
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If it's hardware related, I'd wager it's on the end of a failing hard drive. I don't think it is though, it just sounds like you have a registry that has been ruined with malware and maybe a virus messing with system files. That's just as a guess, though.
Triedit a few times and and that pops up when it gets to 50 percent. Maybe I need a recovery disk? I know it didn't care me with one though...
Some ship with a recovery disk and some prefer you to go online and type in your serial number to download one.
You can also download a fresh copy of Win10 from Microsoft and just use the product key on the bottom of the laptop as well. You'll need to custom load your drivers, but at that point you can do a full restore partition to make restores easier in the future.
Unfortunately, since every browser I try (firefox, explorer, google) seems to keep crashing. I don't think downloading anything is an option. And now I'm getting application errors for seemingly nothing when my desk top boots up.
I guess I'm going to have drive to a star and just buy a new copy of Windows? I'm not really sure what other options I have.
Edit: May have gotten through
I just had this happen to a SSD in a work laptop. It basically was beyond recovery and they had to replace the drive completely.
It might be dead already, but it can also "just" be that the content of the drive ie. the data on it has been garbled or deleted.
If you have something of importance on the drive you can try and boot from a USB stick with hard drive tools to try and recover data. With drive tools you can also access the S.M.A.R.T. data from the drives controller - it might tell you something about it's condition. Alternatively you can mode the drive to a USB enclosure and hook that up to a working computer and try to rescue data from there.
If you don't have anything important on the drive try doing a windows reinstall from a USB stick. Doing so will - to some extent - test the drive so you can learn if it dead.