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speed101
Metal graduate
Number of posts: 416
Age: 40
Registration date: 2011-01-05
 |  Subject: Laptop Question Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:04 am | |
| Hi i have a Toshiba L675 laptop and sometimes i get this box that comes up saying about a disc check that i need to have repaired or checked.Has anyone here with a laptop ever had this problem and what did u do?Im pretty new with laptops so im not sure what to do.thanks for any help i can get. |
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chewie
Metal is in my blood
Number of posts: 2578
Age: 43
Registration date: 2010-03-05
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:40 am | |
| I hate laptops........... all three that have been in this house have crashed eventually. My older sons still works but my wifeys are dead. |
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mc666
Master Sailboat
Number of posts: 7555
Registration date: 2007-01-21
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:31 am | |
| can you get us a screen capture of the box that pops up? that'd be helpful. it could be just a case of malware, especially if it's trying to push a way to "fix" the disc problem. _________________   |
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S.D.
Administrator
Number of posts: 12392
Age: 41
Registration date: 2008-07-12
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:41 am | |
| Are you getting this message when you first turn the computer on?
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EmoElmo
Metal graduate
Number of posts: 383
Age: 36
Registration date: 2011-11-19
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:51 pm | |
| | speed101 wrote: | | Hi i have a Toshiba L675 laptop and sometimes i get this box that comes up saying about a disc check that i need to have repaired or checked.Has anyone here with a laptop ever had this problem and what did u do?Im pretty new with laptops so im not sure what to do.thanks for any help i can get. |
Malware infection from a porn site? if it's a box that keeps popping up then have it scanned, MALWAREBYTES is a free and powerful tool though it would be best to post a screen shot of it (just pess ALT + PrintScreen then paste it using windows paint, save as jPeg) |
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chewie
Metal is in my blood
Number of posts: 2578
Age: 43
Registration date: 2010-03-05
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:46 pm | |
| | EmoElmo wrote: | | speed101 wrote: | | Hi i have a Toshiba L675 laptop and sometimes i get this box that comes up saying about a disc check that i need to have repaired or checked.Has anyone here with a laptop ever had this problem and what did u do?Im pretty new with laptops so im not sure what to do.thanks for any help i can get. |
Malware infection from a porn site? if it's a box that keeps popping up then have it scanned, MALWAREBYTES is a free and powerful tool though it would be best to post a screen shot of it (just pess ALT + PrintScreen then paste it using windows paint, save as jPeg) |
go to the Kaspersky website as well and download the FREE TDSS Killer. It takes care of malware like that. |
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Addy
Metal is in my blood
Number of posts: 2760
Age: 37
Registration date: 2007-01-31
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:36 pm | |
| It sounds like its wanting to do a chkdsk if that is what it sounds like to me you just need to let it run the chkdisk
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MoonChild
Metal is in my blood
Number of posts: 4184
Age: 39
Registration date: 2007-04-02
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:11 pm | |
| Windows sucks! Embrace Linux and have a safe and secure browsing! |
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speed101
Metal graduate
Number of posts: 416
Age: 40
Registration date: 2011-01-05
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:14 pm | |
| I have done that disk check but it does no good. |
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adrian
Metal master
Number of posts: 726
Age: 19
Registration date: 2010-09-03
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:17 pm | |
| | MoonChild wrote: | | Windows sucks! Embrace Linux and have a safe and secure browsing! |
Haha, nowadays I second that. After I took a Linux class this last fall I switched to Ubuntu and have loved it! |
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tohostudios
King Of Kaiju
Number of posts: 15361
Age: 51
Registration date: 2008-02-07
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:18 pm | |
| | speed101 wrote: | | I have done that disk check but it does no good. |
Sure sounds like a malware infection. I had a nasty one of those last year. Damn thing kept telling me my files were corrupted and I needed to run a check. Popup looked just like a Windows popup. WHen you ran the "Fix" program, it came back and said it had fixed most of the problem but to completely fix it, I need to click this link. That's when I realized I'd been had. Things are really sneaky too. This one actually changed a ton of critical files on my drive to "hidden" making me think they'd been wiped out. The frustrating thing is I have no clue how I got it. I don't go to porn sites, I don't open attachments from people I don't know, I don't go to fileshare sites; no clue where it came from.
I tried several fixes and eventually got rid of most of it but since my laptop was 5 years old already I figured I'd just get a new one and keep the old one for storing music files. |
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DallasBlack
Zooey Addict
Number of posts: 10456
Age: 32
Registration date: 2007-09-09
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:52 am | |
| | Quote: | | Damn thing kept telling me my files were corrupted and I needed to run a check. |
In the past I had that a few times on my desktop. I've backed up files and wiped the hard drive at least 4 times on that confounded machine (it is a seven year old computer). |
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S.D.
Administrator
Number of posts: 12392
Age: 41
Registration date: 2008-07-12
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:21 am | |
| I'm so glad I switched to Mac several years ago, never had a single issue in all that time.
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DallasBlack
Zooey Addict
Number of posts: 10456
Age: 32
Registration date: 2007-09-09
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:32 am | |
| | S.D. wrote: | I'm so glad I switched to Mac several years ago, never had a single issue in all that time.
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I would like to try Mac, but I don't have the money for that right now and I don't need anymore credit card debt. |
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adrian
Metal master
Number of posts: 726
Age: 19
Registration date: 2010-09-03
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:35 am | |
| | DallasBlack wrote: | | S.D. wrote: | I'm so glad I switched to Mac several years ago, never had a single issue in all that time.
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I would like to try Mac, but I don't have the money for that right now and I don't need anymore credit card debt. |
I would highly recommend Ubuntu if you're serious about changing operating systems. Very simple, looks nice, lots of software available, and you can always leave a Windows partition in case of emergency. And of course free |
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mc666
Master Sailboat
Number of posts: 7555
Registration date: 2007-01-21
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S.D.
Administrator
Number of posts: 12392
Age: 41
Registration date: 2008-07-12
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:41 am | |
| The Mac OS is built on a unix platform as well. I have Windows installed on a separate partition but I literally never use it, I might log in about once every couple months.
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novellahub
Metal student
Number of posts: 157
Age: 35
Registration date: 2007-07-30
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:12 pm | |
| If you want a similar look to Mac OS, check out Dreamlinux here:
http://www.dreamlinux.info/ |
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The_Jayroh
Metal master
Number of posts: 714
Age: 24
Registration date: 2011-06-04
| | Subject: Re: Laptop Question Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:54 pm | |
| I've had this laptop for a while running Windows 7, and the only issue I've had was trying to getting all my old favorite games to work like Diablo II. I've never had a problem with viruses with any Windows PC.
Haters gunna hate. |
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