Recently I have been having some issues with my computer running rather slowly. After attempting to transfer some files from a CD onto my HDD the computer crashed, so I restarted and then a blue screen appeared stating something along the lines of 'Windows has encountered an error and needs to restart'.
After booting up again I received a message saying 'One of your drives needs to be checked for consistency'. Windows tried to fix the problem but kept saying something like 'There is not enough space to recover the orphan files'. Most were .lnk files if that means anything? When Windows finally loaded half of the icons on the desktop were missing although I hadn't lost any files/folders.
Other than missing desktop files it seemed to be running fine but when I turned the PC on again it wouldn't boot up, even in safe mode. I reformatted the HDD and reinstalled windows and now when you turn it on it takes ages to boot up and while booting up there is a sort of progress bar at the bottom that takes a while to complete...
Any ideas because I am stumped?
Cheers.
After booting up again I received a message saying 'One of your drives needs to be checked for consistency'. Windows tried to fix the problem but kept saying something like 'There is not enough space to recover the orphan files'. Most were .lnk files if that means anything? When Windows finally loaded half of the icons on the desktop were missing although I hadn't lost any files/folders.
Other than missing desktop files it seemed to be running fine but when I turned the PC on again it wouldn't boot up, even in safe mode. I reformatted the HDD and reinstalled windows and now when you turn it on it takes ages to boot up and while booting up there is a sort of progress bar at the bottom that takes a while to complete...
Any ideas because I am stumped?
Cheers.
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