Hi,
I am running win7 Ultimate x64 with all of the udpates as recommended, it is not a new install and has been running perfect for many months, as I use the internet for work a lot I run daily scans with Malwarebytes and I end my working day running CC Cleaner.
My AV is Vipre, and I use Advanced System Care every few days to tidy things up, I run defraggler once a week as well.
The problem I have suddenly encountered is that my pc has started to take over 30 minutes to boot, when I turn it on it runs the bios check and goes to the recovery or windows 7 screen - then it counts down to starting windows and the animated flag flies in and that's it - it hangs there for 30 minutes or more doing nothing it seems, the hard drive light turns from red (working) to blue (normal) and stops any loading noises before finally launching the desktop, initially I thought I may have a virus or something so I ran deep scans of all the tools I use but it all comes back clean, I tried booting into safe mode which just freezes and the same with system repair from the boot menu.
I have run a disk error scan that came back with no errors and no bad sectors.
The drives are twin 320gb and I have a 500gb data drive for storing all my files, the only thing on the main drive is the system and program files.
Unless there is something wrong with the way it boots I am thinking that maybe the main drive is failing but before I do a clean install on another drive I am asking for help in trying to cure this problem.
Once the pc is up an running it is a sweet and crisp as ever, so if anyone has any ideas I would be grateful.
Thanks
I am running win7 Ultimate x64 with all of the udpates as recommended, it is not a new install and has been running perfect for many months, as I use the internet for work a lot I run daily scans with Malwarebytes and I end my working day running CC Cleaner.
My AV is Vipre, and I use Advanced System Care every few days to tidy things up, I run defraggler once a week as well.
The problem I have suddenly encountered is that my pc has started to take over 30 minutes to boot, when I turn it on it runs the bios check and goes to the recovery or windows 7 screen - then it counts down to starting windows and the animated flag flies in and that's it - it hangs there for 30 minutes or more doing nothing it seems, the hard drive light turns from red (working) to blue (normal) and stops any loading noises before finally launching the desktop, initially I thought I may have a virus or something so I ran deep scans of all the tools I use but it all comes back clean, I tried booting into safe mode which just freezes and the same with system repair from the boot menu.
I have run a disk error scan that came back with no errors and no bad sectors.
The drives are twin 320gb and I have a 500gb data drive for storing all my files, the only thing on the main drive is the system and program files.
Unless there is something wrong with the way it boots I am thinking that maybe the main drive is failing but before I do a clean install on another drive I am asking for help in trying to cure this problem.
Once the pc is up an running it is a sweet and crisp as ever, so if anyone has any ideas I would be grateful.
Thanks