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05-02-2012 04:09 AM
I have a dv5 Pavillion laptop. Has worked great. I had to do a "hard Start", by pulling the battery, restarting. Is something about to go wrong with the laptop? Thanks
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05-02-2012 08:04 AM
Hello,
Hopefully not. But just to be safe, backup everything and then, do you know how to do a Windows System Scan? You know, click on and open your 'Computer Icon' in safe mode, then right click the OS (C) Icon and drop down to and click Properties, click and open up the Tools tab and click Error Checking/Check Now, then check both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, click Start. After a few seconds the computer will state that it will do this at the next restart, click Yes and then close and exit everything by clicking OK and restart your laptop and let it do the entire Windows System Scan. This vital Windows System Scan can easily take upwards of two hours and cannot- repeat- cannot be interfered with or stopped whatsoever for any reasons, okay? Once the scan is done, your laptop will restart itself.
If it were a rattler. . . .
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05-02-2012 01:51 PM
Thanks for the help
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05-02-2012 07:53 PM - edited 05-02-2012 08:08 PM
No problem! Hope the issue has been resolved?
If it were a rattler. . . .
