Hi everyone, i've been having a lot of problems with my laptop I don't even know where to begin...maybe from the beginning.
There was this time (around 12 or so days ago) that i installed a certain program called Revo Uninstaller. It let me remove residual files left by uninstalled software. Best of all, i thought at the time, was the fact that it allowed me to delete registry keys added/changed by the said software. Soon, my laptop started slowing down. When it became critical, i decided the best thing was to do a clean install of windows.
That was when the brown stuff hit the fan. The laptop refused to boot from the disc. Luckily, i have a desktop computer so i opened up the laptop, took out the hard drive and hooked it up to the desktop. I used the desktop to format the laptop's hard drive and to install windows. It was late so i left it and came back in the morning. I got a message saying something about i/o error and the installation was cancelled. After that i returned the drive to the laptop and bought a USB stick. I was able to transfer the installation files and make the stick bootable. So i used it to start the installation once more. The same error came up. At this time, i was told that the error came due to some components acting up. As advised, i disconnected the DVD drive and one stick of RAM. When i tried the installation once more, i got a different error, something like 'Could not set offline locale information'. I was frustrated so i tried something different, i tried installing Ubuntu but the display stopped working just as the installation was about to begin. So i tried Fedora, same thing. I even dredged up an old Windows XP installation: it didn't even load the setup files. I was frustrated and luckily, came across an article about the locale error. It said that possibly the harddrive was failing and i could install windows by creating several partitions and hoping one would not contain as many damaged sectors. (Prior to this i had run chkdsk and sfc /scannow; chkdsk failed to create and store the result log file and sfc just failed). I did as stated and Windows installed. So, now that windows was back, i ran a command that would query the drive's health, but the test results said everything was ok. (I'm not sure if it said the truth). However, Windows is still slow and frustrating. I think it's a hardware problem since even after over 3 clean installs, everything is still slow.
The specs:
Acer Aspire 5736z
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 32 bit (Current) W7 Professional SP1 32-bit (initially)
4GB RAM
2.3GHz Dual core Intel processor
Anything else you want to know please ask.
So, what is causing all this? Is my hard drive failing or is my laptop just dying? Is there a way i can fix this??
Something else: it doesn't seem to recognize usb devices. It plays th 'Device Connected' sound but nothing shows up in the removable devices list
There was this time (around 12 or so days ago) that i installed a certain program called Revo Uninstaller. It let me remove residual files left by uninstalled software. Best of all, i thought at the time, was the fact that it allowed me to delete registry keys added/changed by the said software. Soon, my laptop started slowing down. When it became critical, i decided the best thing was to do a clean install of windows.
That was when the brown stuff hit the fan. The laptop refused to boot from the disc. Luckily, i have a desktop computer so i opened up the laptop, took out the hard drive and hooked it up to the desktop. I used the desktop to format the laptop's hard drive and to install windows. It was late so i left it and came back in the morning. I got a message saying something about i/o error and the installation was cancelled. After that i returned the drive to the laptop and bought a USB stick. I was able to transfer the installation files and make the stick bootable. So i used it to start the installation once more. The same error came up. At this time, i was told that the error came due to some components acting up. As advised, i disconnected the DVD drive and one stick of RAM. When i tried the installation once more, i got a different error, something like 'Could not set offline locale information'. I was frustrated so i tried something different, i tried installing Ubuntu but the display stopped working just as the installation was about to begin. So i tried Fedora, same thing. I even dredged up an old Windows XP installation: it didn't even load the setup files. I was frustrated and luckily, came across an article about the locale error. It said that possibly the harddrive was failing and i could install windows by creating several partitions and hoping one would not contain as many damaged sectors. (Prior to this i had run chkdsk and sfc /scannow; chkdsk failed to create and store the result log file and sfc just failed). I did as stated and Windows installed. So, now that windows was back, i ran a command that would query the drive's health, but the test results said everything was ok. (I'm not sure if it said the truth). However, Windows is still slow and frustrating. I think it's a hardware problem since even after over 3 clean installs, everything is still slow.
The specs:
Acer Aspire 5736z
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 32 bit (Current) W7 Professional SP1 32-bit (initially)
4GB RAM
2.3GHz Dual core Intel processor
Anything else you want to know please ask.
So, what is causing all this? Is my hard drive failing or is my laptop just dying? Is there a way i can fix this??
Something else: it doesn't seem to recognize usb devices. It plays th 'Device Connected' sound but nothing shows up in the removable devices list