Majestic PC Issues

[Majestic]

I'd thought I would post here rather than in an existing thread.

The issues are ongoing, we thought we had fixed it previously. First we thought it was a virus so I restored by system to an August restore point and did multiple scans of the PC, then it was assumed it was a Windows corruption and we did a full re-install. Still it kept playing up. Finally we have discovered it's my 2TB harddrive playing up, probably due to a partitioning virus. So we are now backing up my files and plan to do a total reformat of my 2TB hard drive, returning it to a single partition. However we feel the virus could have destroyed the drive fully and so have accepted the possibility that I'll need to get another large hard drive a little later down the road.

I will loose a fair chunk of data, as my external drive is only a 500GB and I am using about 1TB of data on my other drive. However a lot of what I won't be backing up is like installed games (no loss there), files I can justify loosing and so on. So it's not as bad as it looks. And with any luck by this afternoon we'll know if the drive is salvageable or a total loss. I am also planning another full re-install of my system, just for another fresh version and to put my install on another hard-drive as windows has kindly put my boot sector file on a drive that Win7 won't read, but will read during installation. So I plan to put that drive in only install windows on it and then reformat my current windows drive and hopefully it will work as a secondary drive which I can use as my new data storage and secondary back-up drive.

So if all goes well I will still have close to 1 TB of hard drive space internally (thanks to windows only giving me 465GB of the 500GB drives) and my 500GB external back-up drive. Which could probably do me until I get another drive in a few weeks or until I get a new PC sometime early next year.

 

[Jetfreak]

Aye, the bane of folks like us, PC Issues. Nice to know everything looks okay boss.

 

[Majestic]

Yeah well the HD is toast, but I got the majority of the data I wanted. Some was lost but nothing much anyone can do about it so I move forward!

 

[ISS_Enterprise_D]

I'm not aware of the other problems you may be having, but the ones you said here sound eerily similar to what I have gone through with this thing. Due to immature activities, I got a virus and 7 trojans on this thing. I had them cleared out, and deleted a lot of un-needed items, but I'm still having severe performance issues. I'm also in the process of backing up my essentials onto my newly acquired 1 TB external hard drive. But the situation doesn't seem to be resolving. Every time I run like any program, the CPU usage jumps to 100%, even though I got a nice 9 GB of RAM.

 

[Hellkite]

I'm not aware of the other problems you may be having, but the ones you said here sound eerily similar to what I have gone through with this thing. Due to immature activities, I got a virus and 7 trojans on this thing. I had them cleared out, and deleted a lot of un-needed items, but I'm still having severe performance issues. I'm also in the process of backing up my essentials onto my newly acquired 1 TB external hard drive. But the situation doesn't seem to be resolving. Every time I run like any program, the CPU usage jumps to 100%, even though I got a nice 9 GB of RAM.

Give JetClean a try you can download it from C -net http://download.cnet.com/JetClean/3000-18512_4-75627788.html

JetClean is a really good system cleaning and other maintenance tools I've use it for years now and I have no issues with any of my systems, I nay be worth a look ISS

 

[CABAL]

but I'm still having severe performance issues.

This may be at least partially Windows' fault. The NTFS file system is incredibly prone to fragmentation and the defragger that Windows ships with isn't very good. If you had a virus attack it's probably even more fragmented than usual. Try using a third party defragger (I use the one included in the AVG PC Tuneup software package) and see if that helps.

You may also try a different file system entirely, but it's probably more trouble than it's worth if defragging works fine. My system has a NTFS partition for Windows, an EXT4 partition for Ubuntu, and a shared HFS+ partition for files and games. HFS+ can be read on Windows with third party programs, such as MacDrive, and is very resilient to fragmentation. However, like I said, the new partition probably isn't worth the effort if simply defragmenting the drive works fine or you're not dual booting.

 

[Terra_Inc]

But the situation doesn't seem to be resolving. Every time I run like any program, the CPU usage jumps to 100%, even though I got a nice 9 GB of RAM.

Uh... I'm in no way an expert for operating systems, but.. are you sure your OS can even address that much memory? If your system has an older CPU, like an Intel x86, the limit is pretty low. 64bit CPUs can handle way more RAM.

 

[Majestic]

Uh... I'm in no way an expert for operating systems, but.. are you sure your OS can even address that much memory? If your system has an older CPU, like an Intel x86, the limit is pretty low. 64bit CPUs can handle way more RAM.

If it's a 32 Bit Operating System it will only read 3GB, regardless of your PC specs and whether it's Win7, Vista or XP. Don't go to Win8, it's just like Facebook and actually shares all your images and Videos publicly and automatically. It's a security risk and not worth the cash to buy.

 

[Majestic]

Update, my PC is dead, it's died, gone to a better place.

The beast was almost 4 years old and is run frequently in fact it's on more than it's off and so I think it did well. Just goes to show how well AMD's are given the fact every Intel I have had has only lasted 2 years with the same treatment.

Katala was kind enough to let me use her PC in the short term until we get around to upgrading mine. Hopefully early next year I'll be getting a new PC, Kat has her high end laptop so it's all good.