On my PC in addition to my main hard disc I keep two older discs partly for sentimental value, partly for backup options and partly so I have an old version of windows 7 I can log into whenever anything goes badly wrong on my main OS (Windows 10). I don't really need them, or so I thought. Recently my PC suddenly complained it couldn't access one of the older discs, and then on every subsequent restart it would take time to do a disc check on that drive, and then run incredibly slowly from then onwards through the loading of windows and the general running of the machine after login.
So I imagined that maybe that hard disc was the problem, it had failed in some way and I should just disconnect it to solve the problem.
But when I did I suddenly found my main hard disc no longer boots at all. I can still get into Windows 7 on my other slightly less old hard disc, and from there I can read all the files on my main hard disc as normal. But even when I disconnected that drive my computer refused to boot at all. And even after reconnecting all drives it doesn't even revert to the original state of a very slow boot into windows 10.
I suppose I could buy another disc and install a fresh copy of windows and copy everything over from my main disc but I thought I'd run this by you first in case it's something people have encountered before.
Thanks!
So I imagined that maybe that hard disc was the problem, it had failed in some way and I should just disconnect it to solve the problem.
But when I did I suddenly found my main hard disc no longer boots at all. I can still get into Windows 7 on my other slightly less old hard disc, and from there I can read all the files on my main hard disc as normal. But even when I disconnected that drive my computer refused to boot at all. And even after reconnecting all drives it doesn't even revert to the original state of a very slow boot into windows 10.
I suppose I could buy another disc and install a fresh copy of windows and copy everything over from my main disc but I thought I'd run this by you first in case it's something people have encountered before.
Thanks!