Windows 10: Laptop functioning unusably slow after abrupt outage

Thanks will check it out.

Also i am noticing improvements in performing tasks/less freezing, however small improvements, for example i can now play videos saved on my laptop without freezing.

Is it possible through use and more cleanups it could continue to get speed up?

 

Looking at this, you are playing with fire.





Whatever small improvement is temporary at best, you need to replace the drive before it dies when
you least expect it.

 

"Is it possible through use and more cleanups it could continue to get speed up? "

Definitely not, once bad sectors are developing it can only get worse, it's a mechanical device.

Whilst the marking off of bad sectors may temporarily improve things that will be short lived as damage is only going to get worse.

Just buy a new HDD.

 

As your hard disk is failing, if you were to try to create a disk image now with Macrium Reflect, it will probably fail with a CRC error (indicating data/disk corruption). You can try of course.

What you need to do is make sure you've copied off and backed up as much data as you can successfully read from it, and as we've said, get a new disk and clean install. You might want to take the opportunity to upgrade to a SSD (boots much faster).

Download Windows 10 ISO File Installation Upgrade Tutorials
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials
(Activation is automatic)

As soon as Windows is running,create your first disk image - so when you buy a new disk, make sure you've got a big enough one for disk image sets too.

That way you can often avoid reinstalls, and have a full backup.

Note Hard Disk Sentinel (e.g.) provides continuous monitoring of your disk, so can alert you of disk degradation.

 

Hi apologies for the slow reply, I am currently travelling which made my hard drive failing an even more pain.

I have looked up on some SSD to buy and i read PCIe SSDs are faster than SATA SSDs
I have come across two on eBay i would like to buy but i am unsure if they will fit or how I will go about it?


OPTION 1:
Toshiba 256GB XG3 M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive - P/N: THNSN5256GPU7 | eBay

OPTION 2:
Toshiba XG4 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD PCIe THNSN5256GPUK 2280 Solid State Drive XPS | eBay

 

1) read this link
M.2 SSD Notebook Upgrade Guide

2) read the link above in the performance section which compares PCIe to SATA
The article was dated March 2017

• Performance. For general use, this is one area where you probably won’t have to spend a lot of time researching, as just about all new M.2 storage drives on the market will not show noticeable performance differences for day-to-day usage. Pricier drives, such as PCI Express drives supporting the NVMe protocol, will generally have better performance for more storage-intensive activities, but the situations where a drive like that would really be worth the extra over a traditional drive are few and far between.

3) use the crucial web site to have it scan your computer and provide information
Crucial US | DRAM, Solid State Drive (SSD) Memory Upgrades

4) Whatever you get remember that the BIOS and chipset must support drivers to be able to use the drive features. So you may need to make the extra effort if you need the performance to make sure the bios and chipset with the available drivers are available for the computer to provide the performance.

5) probably the best option is to find the least expensive reputable drive manufacturer with a 3 year warranty

 

Yeah not sure i can be asked with the hassle anymore i am just going to go with a crucial ssd as it's most straightforward. Hope they are good

Thanks

 

Would like to thank you for the above steps and everyone else who helped. Back up and running now, no more unsafe battery removals

 

Good news.. keep up the disk imaging.