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By *igerstyle2k2 OP Man
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

So I turned my laptop on today only fir it to start up with a 'windows failed to load' notification.

It went through some checks and attempted to 'fix' itself, restarted and now it seems to be fine. Now I'm afraid to turn it off!

Done a malware scan which came out clean.

No idea what's caused it but it's majorly annoying.

All important files are backed up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

your not on windows ten are you ?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I have just had some new windows put in

*courtesy of the useless information department*

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By *igerstyle2k2 OP Man
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

Windows 7.

I did replace my hard drive last year so it might be the hard drive being difficult.

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By *olfcartweaselCouple
over a year ago

Melrose

I would typically expect this if there had been some kind of data loss or corruption - make sure your backups are up to date, and run scandisk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Check hatd drive is screwed in correctly.

Common fault on startup.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bloody spelling is crap when I have flu!

Do you have a sata hard drive? What make etc? Been having problems with others recently.

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By *awtymarkyMan
over a year ago

chester

"So I turned my laptop on today only fir it to start up with a 'windows failed to load' notification.

It went through some checks and attempted to 'fix' itself, restarted and now it seems to be fine. Now I'm afraid to turn it off!

Done a malware scan which came out clean.

No idea what's caused it but it's majorly annoying.

All important files are backed up."

Sounds to me one of the Windows start up files was corrupted or broken. This can happen with a driver update or os update. If happens again load in safe mode without network and check start up files plus reset any changes back to a more stable running period. You will know if it's a virus or malware as your machine will run very slow to the point you want to through it out of a window.

Hope it helps

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By *awtymarkyMan
over a year ago

chester

"Bloody spelling is crap when I have flu!

Do you have a sata hard drive? What make etc? Been having problems with others recently. "

I very much doubt it will be your hard drive unless you have not built your raid properly on installing a new drive??

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By *igerstyle2k2 OP Man
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

Thanks for the help and comments, people!

I ran a malware and virus scan. Backed up files. Ran a scandisk.

It's booted up fine, no problems.

Everything seems fine, only time will tell if it happens again.

Thanks again!

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