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2nd October 2010, 11:33 PM #1Newbie
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loooooong boot time
I have a Toshiba Satellite that I bought a little less than a year ago, and have never had a single issue with it until today. I turned it on and it took almost an hour to boot up windows. Everything loaded up like it should, it just took forever and is still running very slow now that it is up and going. I checked task manager, and I'm using very little of my available resources. I was going to try a system restore to a previous date, but when I try that, I get an error message saying "system restore does not appear to be functioning correctly on this system. The volume shadow copy service used by system restore is not working." I shut it down, unplugged it, removed the battery, and held down the power button for about 30 seconds in case it was a static issue. I have restarted it a couple times, and no improvement.
Any ideas???
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3rd October 2010, 02:37 AM #2
Re: loooooong boot time
Sounds like a virus...
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3rd October 2010, 05:32 AM #3
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Is the HDD dying? If you have some diagnostic tests with your computer (either on a CD or built into the BIOS), run them. Running a HDD benchmark program such as HD Tune should also give a good indication of whether the HDD has inherent problems.
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19th October 2010, 11:03 AM #4Notebook Consultant
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Re: loooooong boot time
don't rush into any repair. Many problrms are made worse by trying a bunch of stuff and then you have the original problem along with all the tweaking you did to deal with. best to stop, think of all recent changes or anything that could be the cause of the problem. Google everything you can think of, get a clean pad and start keeping notes. Write down everything you try and any notes or systedm flags that pop up. go slow. you can cause more problems in five minutes than you can fix in several hours. try diagnostic things befor repair things. Google all reply notes from your machine. If you have important data that is not on a backup external device then focus first on saving your data. Once that is done you can focus on the repair and you arn't hurt too bad if you have to format and reinstall the system.
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22nd December 2010, 06:40 PM #5Banned
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Re: loooooong boot time
^-- +1 backup your files before you attempt to fix something that is so clearly affecting your computer in a bad way... I made a mistake of not doing that one time and corrupted my O.S. therefore losing my files and folders having the hard drive not bootable. x.x
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23rd February 2011, 01:16 PM #6Notebook Guru
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Re: loooooong boot time
I had a similiar problem with my desktop and tried cc cleaner, registry cleaners, etc. My norton 2009 was up to date and functioning correctly, malwayre bytes was tried, nothing helped.
The problem went away when I upgraded to Norton 2011 and suddenly my pc started booting faster than ever.
Perhaps your anti-virus should be looked at too.
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25th February 2011, 03:23 PM #7
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checking the anti-virus is a good idea
when I was running Norton on my dv7 it had really slow boot times - I switched to Eset and never have had a problem since
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5th March 2011, 09:38 AM #8Banned
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Re: loooooong boot time
I had the same problem, but when I ran HijackThis it found some kind of shopping program that when I removed it everything was fine.
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11th March 2011, 01:00 PM #9Notebook Evangelist
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Re: loooooong boot time
I suggest that you boot into safe mode and run a virus scan. Sometimes viruses
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24th March 2011, 08:09 PM #10Notebook Enthusiast
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Re: loooooong boot time
sometimes the only solution is to reformat the pc
this might help you
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-a7c43c0d0b09



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