Hello - I'm not sure this is the correct section to post this so I'm happy to delete and move if required!
I have an Emachines 732Z laptop that is now completely unusable - probably due to botched repair attempts and long chain of imporbable events!
A few days ago my daughter knocked the laptop (while running) - my wife picked it up and siad it seemed fine. She continued to use it that evening without any problems and shut it down at the end of the day.
The next morning I restarted the laptop only to get a BSOD - while rare this has happened in the past so I thought nothing of it. I restarted the computer and it automatically went into startup repair - I let it go through the process and it identified a s system integrity error that it said could not be automatically repaired. I chose the restore to earlier point option and let it run - extremely slowly I should add.
Eventually window reopened and started to update - going painfully slow. The system wanted to update so I left it to do so while I we wen to work.
That evening when I came home I was able to restart the computer and access windows (albeit slowly). I decided to defrag the hard drinve in the hope this might sort out any problems with disk errors from the drop. During the process I noticed that the cpu would sometimes sit 0% activity for long periods of time and rearely went above 4-5%, those time corresponded to the defrag actually running, a lot of the time the machine sat idle (10-20 mins at a time).
I decided to leave the machine running and went out - my wife then decided to turn the machine off mid-way throught the defrag. Later when she tried to restart it she found that it only boots into the repair tool and not windows.
I tried to return to an earlier point (like previously) but there are now no restore points. I tried memtest and that has come back fine.
At this point I am all out of options - there is a very small amount of data I would like to recover from the computer but that's a secondary issue, I'm concerned that the machine is broken beyond repair - I would really appreciate any help or advice.
I have an Emachines 732Z laptop that is now completely unusable - probably due to botched repair attempts and long chain of imporbable events!
A few days ago my daughter knocked the laptop (while running) - my wife picked it up and siad it seemed fine. She continued to use it that evening without any problems and shut it down at the end of the day.
The next morning I restarted the laptop only to get a BSOD - while rare this has happened in the past so I thought nothing of it. I restarted the computer and it automatically went into startup repair - I let it go through the process and it identified a s system integrity error that it said could not be automatically repaired. I chose the restore to earlier point option and let it run - extremely slowly I should add.
Eventually window reopened and started to update - going painfully slow. The system wanted to update so I left it to do so while I we wen to work.
That evening when I came home I was able to restart the computer and access windows (albeit slowly). I decided to defrag the hard drinve in the hope this might sort out any problems with disk errors from the drop. During the process I noticed that the cpu would sometimes sit 0% activity for long periods of time and rearely went above 4-5%, those time corresponded to the defrag actually running, a lot of the time the machine sat idle (10-20 mins at a time).
I decided to leave the machine running and went out - my wife then decided to turn the machine off mid-way throught the defrag. Later when she tried to restart it she found that it only boots into the repair tool and not windows.
I tried to return to an earlier point (like previously) but there are now no restore points. I tried memtest and that has come back fine.
At this point I am all out of options - there is a very small amount of data I would like to recover from the computer but that's a secondary issue, I'm concerned that the machine is broken beyond repair - I would really appreciate any help or advice.
