Wow...check your disks!

[Traci Reed]

So my desktop, the one I work, design, do school and live on..started dying a few weeks ago and we assumed it was a bad hard drive and were going to buy a new one. Well we tried everything to fix the problem, virus scans, defrag, all sorts of stuff, and it just would not run!! Well, in one last ditch effort, my step dad told us to run checkdisk (go to the properties for your hard drive and it's under "tools") and it worked!! Whoo hoo! it's nice to be back on my baby again!

So the moral of the story is, check your disks and your computer could run faster!

 

[ZaCola3]

Congrats Traci!
I know you are happy to be back with your desktop!

 

[amyb]

I'll certainly keep that in mind!! What a relief that you don't have to buy a new computer!

 

[my4boys]

Would the same hold true on a laptop????

I am definitely going to do it on the desktop ( those kids have so much crap on it I am surprised it still runs!!! ) Thanks for the info Traci

 

[ColleenSwerb]

Oh yay Traci!! That's awesome!

 

[~Julie~]

thanks for the tip Traci, I will definitely check that out!

 

[rainydays]

where do you check disks? I want to do mine too, LOL!!

 

[ditzyscrap]

Shannon, go:

Start > My Computer > right click on C:/ (or whatever your internal har drive is called) and choose Properties > click on the Tools tab > Error-checking

 

[Nettio]

I went through this with my laptop hard drive around Christmas. I started getting a lot of disk errors in Photoshop and files being written to bad parts of the drive which the checkdisk would fix. I eventually ended up replacing the drive and since then I've had no problems. So I wouldn't rule out a new drive completely, these are the kinds of signs you want to pay attention to since it could be letting you know your drive is slowly dying.

 

[SaraAmarie]

Glad you found a fix Traci! Its so frustrating to not have things running right!

 

[mrs_jb]

Sounds like a great tip! Glad you were able to fix your computer, I know I'm always lost when mine isn't running right.

 

[AmyM]

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try that!

 

[Traci Reed]

I went through this with my laptop hard drive around Christmas. I started getting a lot of disk errors in Photoshop and files being written to bad parts of the drive which the checkdisk would fix. I eventually ended up replacing the drive and since then I've had no problems. So I wouldn't rule out a new drive completely, these are the kinds of signs you want to pay attention to since it could be letting you know your drive is slowly dying.

Oh DEF! I don't keep anything on this hard drive (I have 2 in my compputer, 1 for files and one for programs) So I'm not concerned about it just dying one day..I'm just glad I'm getting a few more miles out of it! haha

 

[my4boys]

I did it...I think!!!! I do not have any major issues but I did schedule to to this each time my computer starts up.....thanks again

 

[uptowngirl]

I am def going to keep this in mind even thought it is fairly new! just last night I got some funky msg in PS and was like agh, what do I do? lol!

 

[nonnie]

Thanks for the great tip Traci!!!

 

[meems]

checking disk now.

is there a way i can find out why my DVD burner is so fickle?

 

[Kat Stokes]

Thanks for the tip Traci! I did my LT this morning and the desktop is running right now.

 

[rainydays]

Thanks! Wow, totally worked!

Shannon, go:

Start > My Computer > right click on C:/ (or whatever your internal har drive is called) and choose Properties > click on the Tools tab > Error-checking

 

[Micheline Lincoln]

Thanks for the tip Traci I did it yesterday after reading this thread and my pc is running ALOT faster!

 

[Traci Reed]

woot!!! glad it's helping you all...make sure that you know if it finds bad sectors on the HD you'll need to replace it anyway soon.