A friend needed help with his laptop it was running extremely slow to the point it was unusable and has been sitting in a closet.
I tried to get in and see what was going but i noticed as soon as i turned it on that it was slow getting into windows and when it did i realized that i had to wait 2-5 minutes for it to process anything just opening the start menu took about a minute then after it would open what i wanted it just froze and had to be restarted. It ran a little better when i went into safe mode but once i tried to open any files the same issue would happen.
He didn't have any files worth saving so i just did a fresh install of windows 7. Same issues. So i decided to run some tests on the Hard drive by connecting it to my pc and it was getting a error on HD Tune pro when i tried to run a file benchmark.
At this point i'm thinking its the hard drive but i also swapped the ram from my laptop just in case still the same issues. So is OK to say that the hard drive is the issue? I dont want to have him spend money on a hard drive and it could be the cpu or something.
I tried to get in and see what was going but i noticed as soon as i turned it on that it was slow getting into windows and when it did i realized that i had to wait 2-5 minutes for it to process anything just opening the start menu took about a minute then after it would open what i wanted it just froze and had to be restarted. It ran a little better when i went into safe mode but once i tried to open any files the same issue would happen.
He didn't have any files worth saving so i just did a fresh install of windows 7. Same issues. So i decided to run some tests on the Hard drive by connecting it to my pc and it was getting a error on HD Tune pro when i tried to run a file benchmark.
At this point i'm thinking its the hard drive but i also swapped the ram from my laptop just in case still the same issues. So is OK to say that the hard drive is the issue? I dont want to have him spend money on a hard drive and it could be the cpu or something.