nac
Aspiring Novelist
My cousin has this laptop Dell Inspiron 3558 (i3 4005u with no optical drive).
His system is too slow right from booting into windows loading icons in the desktop, working in browser/documents to shutdown. Everything is slow. Amount of slowness may vary, but in general it's painfully slow.
Scanned for virus, malware. It's clean.
Disabled most of the start up app, still slow.
HDD stays @ 100% all the time. So checked with HD Tune, about 6.5% of the blocks are bad sectors. And a quick check shows warning.
Used Live Ubuntu, it's fine and good.
Tried to install Ubuntu in one of the partition, but failed. Tried 3-4 times, throwing error and stops. Thought if I can install Ubuntu and things works fine, he can use this HDD for now.
Though I am kinda sure new HDD/SSD should fix this, he would like to know if he can still use this somehow.
Move the bad sector and clean/fresh installation of OS should do?
His system is too slow right from booting into windows loading icons in the desktop, working in browser/documents to shutdown. Everything is slow. Amount of slowness may vary, but in general it's painfully slow.
Scanned for virus, malware. It's clean.
Disabled most of the start up app, still slow.
HDD stays @ 100% all the time. So checked with HD Tune, about 6.5% of the blocks are bad sectors. And a quick check shows warning.
Used Live Ubuntu, it's fine and good.
Tried to install Ubuntu in one of the partition, but failed. Tried 3-4 times, throwing error and stops. Thought if I can install Ubuntu and things works fine, he can use this HDD for now.
Though I am kinda sure new HDD/SSD should fix this, he would like to know if he can still use this somehow.
Move the bad sector and clean/fresh installation of OS should do?