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Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
I wish I had good news for you -- but I don't ...
That indicates at least one bad sector on your drive -- and quite possibly, a lot more. When the disk controller encounters faulty sectors, instead of reading hundreds a second, it tried to read the same sector over and over, hundreds of times, until it finally times out. You're saying it's doing that for hours indicates LOTS of failed sectors -- and that implies a failed, or rapidly failing, hard drive.
My suggestion is that you do the following ASAOP:
1) Remove the drive from your laptop
2) Purchase a USB-to-Hard-Drive adapter cable
3) Connect the drive to a working PC
4) If you can, copy off all the files and folders you want to save
Then, when done, see about replacing the drive.
Good Luck
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
38,402
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Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
I wish I had good news for you -- but I don't ...
That indicates at least one bad sector on your drive -- and quite possibly, a lot more. When the disk controller encounters faulty sectors, instead of reading hundreds a second, it tried to read the same sector over and over, hundreds of times, until it finally times out. You're saying it's doing that for hours indicates LOTS of failed sectors -- and that implies a failed, or rapidly failing, hard drive.
My suggestion is that you do the following ASAOP:
1) Remove the drive from your laptop
2) Purchase a USB-to-Hard-Drive adapter cable
3) Connect the drive to a working PC
4) If you can, copy off all the files and folders you want to save
Then, when done, see about replacing the drive.
Good Luck
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
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