That command!!

Thank EdP but it’s not that.  I’m still on W7 though do have a W10 m/c that needs building.  Using this ‘particular’ command after initialising it via Return, it eventually fgot you to a position where you had 3 options – one of which was storage on your system.

Selecting storage gave you a block of disks on the LHS and then a larger block which gave you info about them etc. – format etc. etc. As I said not been active on PCs for quite a while but many thanks for your response.  Dave

Thanks once again, I seem to remember it was just one word you entered on the Search progs etc.  I did think of making a note of it but us men as my wife would say!!

What I have done is to connect the suspect HDD to another W10 PC and it’s taking ages to read it – on another known ‘good’ drive it was seconds – so money’s on duff HDD.  See if I can get anything off it with a Linux distro.  Dave

That’s it – but not the way I used to get there. Am reading the HDD via another W10 PC and getting there slowly. Suspect my Sharkoon may be dead anyway – another job for tomorrow.  Thank you one and all,  Dave

JCD – Many thanks – come here quite often, just not posted in a long time.   Will be building a new W10 PC soon – got the stuff 4 months ago still in boxes – will more then likely need assistance – as I said no just rusty but corroded by now!!

I’m back like an old bad smell – I suspected the HDD on this PC – using WD Utilities (it’s a WD 1TB Black HDD) I am now told that WD U will only support this if it was formatted via their Utilities – grrrrrr – it wasn’t!  Looked on ‘tinternet and found that I can ask W10 to check each drive in the system – when I initially did this it said the drive was OK, anyway I asked it to check the HDD and it now tells me that it will take at least 13 hours – is this reasonable? Is there another drive checking utility that is less user-unfriendly than the WDU one?  Thanks,  Dave

PS I should have added that it took about 18hours to copy across about 9GB of files from this HDD to my known good one in the W10 computer that i am using – does this also seem to be a very long time?

Sorry should have said it was 24.1GB of data transferred in the specified time.  The W10 HDD check on the suspect drive has just come back as – all good – just as it showed initially. I think that the OS system has been knackered somehow or other and there doesn’t seem to be anyway of repairing it as far as I can see.

Format and re-install seems appropriate?

Thanks, it was a PC I built for him about 4 years ago – this is always left ON!  He phoned me to say that having come home one day and tried to get onto his PC he was greeted with a message that he was being logged in as a temporary user profile, with comments that the PC may be able to configure correctly but starting and shutting down, then ‘repairing the ‘C’ drive then eventually nothing!!

I looked at the problem of ‘Windows Temporary User Profile (TEMP) Issue’ which seemed to be the problem – their initial suggestions did not work and it became a case of possibly editing the Registry – we didn’t get that far as the HDD either gave up the ghost or something else happened – it just seemed to be in a loop – repairing – can’t repair etc. Fortunately I have been able to read the HDD via another PC and recovered what he needs off it – however when accessed via another PC (as a slave) I can ‘see’ all of it – the problem seems to be at boot up time in his PC.  I strongly suspect that W10 has been somehow or other damaged.  Format and clean install may be on the cards especially as W10 has given the HDD a clean bill of health.

Thanks Dave, Harriet graduation – tell her congrats from me and Emma (now in Sheffield) – is it 3 years already?  Time flies.  Right the PC – he leaves it on virtually all the time and when he comes back to it on very many occasions he hits the mouse or keyboard and nothing happens – he has to switch it off at the PSU, also happens quite often when updating.

OK so I now have the PC up and running with a clean install of W10 and currently updating the OS. When I initially completed the OS install, the PC booted up and then commenced to ‘repair errors on the HDD’ – last night W10 told me that the HDD was OK!! Who do I believe??  Even now the system when switched on will not always get the monitor out of standby mode and this has to be achieved by switching off at the PSU and restarting – can’t see any reason for this in the BIOS – but these new ones are a complete horror to me.  The system is 2017 era and I am starting to suspect something is not right in the m/board as it fails to initiate the monitor.  I haven’t built PC for some years but the caddy seems a good investment even if for only reading old HDDs from my old systems. Thanks,  Dave

Sorry but I’ve only been back a few days and I’ve hogged this place!  Sorry.

Current sit rep – W10 loaded and when switched on – says ‘Repairing C’, WD Lifeguard says too many duff sectors on the HDD – well seems we’re getting somewhere.