Macbook (13″): Is excessive power consumption and resultant hot battery symptomatic of a faulty hard drive?

October 13, 2009

I know from diagnostic software that my macbook’s hard drive has a lot of bad sectors.

It also is very slow to access any data, to the point of being effectively unusable, fails to run many applications, and uses up so much power that the battery barely gains any excess stored power, because all of the power is going to the computer. As a result of this, the battery and charger get very hot.

Is this likely to be the result of the hard drive problems, making the solution hard drive replacement, or is there likely to be another problem – and if so, what?

Thanks in advance! x

Windows Vista clean install doesn't boot up first priority?

October 12, 2009

I’m currently running on Windows XP. I want to install Windows Vista. When I installed Windows XP, the setup ran when I first restarted the computer. I tried doing that with Vista, changing the priority to the DVD drive. It totally skips the DVD drive and just boots up my hard drive? Does anybody know why?

How to clean computer of virus, spyware, malware etc?

October 11, 2009

I have run AVG virus checker, Ad-Aware spyware checker, a registry cleaner (Eusing), defragged the hard drive, deleted temp files, cleaned the IE history, but the PC still runs slow. It’s got a decent spec, so is there anything else I can do to boost it’s performance?

Thanks

My Dell Desktop has malware. How can I wipe my PC clean and restart again?

October 10, 2009

After running several scans on my PC Dell desktop with AdAware, my PC is fully contaminated with Malware. How can I wipe out my PC clean and start fresh again? So far I’ve come across the ""Dell OS Recovery CD" and the "Driver Reset Tool" which I’ve burned from my hard drive into a CD. I am clueless as to how to get this started. Can anyone provide a step by step on how to get this started?

How come at random websites I keep on getting virus protection pop ups?

October 8, 2009

I have McAfee virus protection plus "super anti spyware" program. I do the scan everyday, delete temp. internet files(cookies, etc.), clean my hard drive, and defragment it. I still get pop ups eventhough the pop up blocker is on, plus when these ads for a virus protection come up, they block pictures. Not to mention, I have two trojans to get rid of which are called Winfixer and Vundo..anyone know how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!