First of all, hi!
Basically a few days ago my flatmate came to me with his laptop not being able to boot and asked me to take a look at it. So I turned it on and there seemed to be a clicking noise coming from the HDD and it claiming there was nothing to boot from. After wrestling with it for a while I managed to get it to actually boot and load up windows in safe mode and eventually normal. Even still safe mode was taking a good 20-30 mins to load up to a useable state. When I finally got to the desktop the laptop seems unresponsive and hangs when trying to do things. I ran multiple virus, malware scans etc. and nothing came up.
Next I tried checking the HDD with chkdsk, this came up with multiple 'File record segment ##### is unreadable'. I left this running and it seems to attempt to fix things but I think it maybe cuts out half way and restarts with no change to the performance of the laptop. I have ran chkdsk multiple times with the same results just to make sure.
From what I gather the laptop is quite old and looks like it's taken a few knocks over the years!
If anyone could possibly give an opinion over the state of the machine, that would be great!
Thanks.
Specs/model:
Dell Inspiron 1545
Intel Celeron dual-core
4gb ram
Basically a few days ago my flatmate came to me with his laptop not being able to boot and asked me to take a look at it. So I turned it on and there seemed to be a clicking noise coming from the HDD and it claiming there was nothing to boot from. After wrestling with it for a while I managed to get it to actually boot and load up windows in safe mode and eventually normal. Even still safe mode was taking a good 20-30 mins to load up to a useable state. When I finally got to the desktop the laptop seems unresponsive and hangs when trying to do things. I ran multiple virus, malware scans etc. and nothing came up.
Next I tried checking the HDD with chkdsk, this came up with multiple 'File record segment ##### is unreadable'. I left this running and it seems to attempt to fix things but I think it maybe cuts out half way and restarts with no change to the performance of the laptop. I have ran chkdsk multiple times with the same results just to make sure.
From what I gather the laptop is quite old and looks like it's taken a few knocks over the years!
If anyone could possibly give an opinion over the state of the machine, that would be great!
Thanks.
Specs/model:
Dell Inspiron 1545
Intel Celeron dual-core
4gb ram
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