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If you're referring to returning data to my Toshiba's drive, I can tell you that it's no longer accessible. Before it went south, I planned on checking for any data files that I didn't copy onto my desktop drives via my wireless FiOS network. But I waited too long. I wasn't able to open...

I didn't want to be a burden on those whom I've involved in my SSD buying decision, so I ordered the Samsung SSD. Newegg already shipped it Next Day from their Edison NJ warehouse, at their own expense, and I'll have it by noon tomorrow. I've never had a grievance with Newegg. I only have...

While the Samsung I have in mind was tested, the Intel 530 was not. They tested the Intel 335, instead. It's too expensive for me.

Thank you for the explanation. I am indeed a low power user, with the majority of my usage being internet access, video file downloads and some pc health maintenance measures. Either unit would suit me well.

Thank you ddrueding and Handruin. Newegg - The Samsung is $152, with 3 yr. warranty. The Intel is $165 with 5 yr. warranty. Same shipping cost. The Intel for $13 for an additional 2 yr., seems right. What is the preferable standard - TLC or MLC?

The 500GB Hitachi hard drive in my Toshiba Satellite A505-S6965 laptop died. What do you think about this as a replacement?.....SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) How about this?.....Intel 530 Series SSDSC2BW240A401 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC...

I've been using Yahoo Search to find info, but I'm going to become good friends with Google from now on. Google is everybody's friend, especially Wikipedia.

Thank you. That link offers me a wealth of useful information. I'm sure I'll discover elements in the OS that I never knew exists.

I've never been sure if selecting a restore point after a pc failure, has any potential of solving a problem that I can't solve by trial and error methods.

First of all, I apologize for not acknowledging your effort in offering me the link. I sincerely clicked on it when I read your post and I looked at the page. But I got sidetracked and never checked the registry for the proper entry. However, I just did this and found the proper text string...

I forgot to elaborate on the text above, which I colored blue. It was my desktop pc that kept freezing, not my Lenovo laptop. I still have the CD, but not the freezing problem.

I'm sure the Windows 7 Installation DVD has a Recovery Console. I'm a little squeamish about using it, for fear that i might "click one time too many and install the OS over the existing one." For my peace of mind, I'll wait for the Lenovo disks. In fact, it looks like I'll have them...

Since everything on the Lenovo laptop is also on the Toshiba laptop and desktop pc, I don't make backups on the Lenovo. If it crashes big time, I'll just use the recovery disks and then reinstall my other programs if the hard drive is salvageable or I need a replacement. This "event" has been...

I most certainly do press "Enter" after I type "Y" for "Yes." I've been doing this since Win 98. Good question, since it's not obvious that the Enter key is necessary to complete the request! If the Lenovo disk set doesn't offer me a Recovery Console, I'll look for it on my Windows 7...

If my memory serves me well, about the time that chkdsk stopped working, in the middle of a normal restart I was informed that my disk had inconsistencies and I was asked if I would allow chkdsk to scan the drive. I gave permission and that was the scan that rendered a huge amount of errors...

I agree that a Thinkpad should have more than one recovery disk. In fact, I was never notified how many disks I would need for the entire process when it started. It asked me to insert one disk into the optical drive and when it was done that was it. It may be that the problem on the drive...

You and Bozo get five gold stars for your efforts. Regarding the Recovery Disk Set being sent to me by Lenovo, I found out that the set will have the OS on a disk or two and the device drivers on other disks. The tech. support rep. last night may have been incorrect in what she told me. Maybe...

I forgot to share with you the link to this new thread, which I started yesterday. You must have felt my presence in the forum, to inadvertently find it. The good news is that I successfully downloaded the 600MB file at your link. The bad news is that chkdsk is nowhere to be found. I even...

In a command prompt window, I scheduled a chkdsk scan, keeping track of the time. I restarted. When chkdsk cancelled by itself, as expected, I looked at the time. After I arrived at the desktop, I opened Event Viewer and looked at the contents of every folder in the left pane for a warning...

Thank you for the elaboration on the two programs. But you're confused about how I've been using chkdsk. The program is failing after I restart, when the white text on a black background screen appears just before finalizing a restart at the desktop. At this point, there's no 10 sec...

I was unable to find where to download the files to create a CD.

I called tech. support and am having a Recovery Disk Set sent to me. The rep. said there will be two disks, not one. She also told me to use System File Checker instead of chkdsk, to accomplish the same task. In a command prompt, I typed "sfc /scannow", and there were no problems detected.

Using the recovery disk, there were two recovery methods offered to me. Restore windows partition ( C: ) ONLY.....or restore to factory defaults. All data will be lost! I exited and restarted. I checked the size of the disk. It was 332MB. This seems low for a restored OS. When the...

You wrote recovery "disks". whereas I created only one disk using the Lenovo Solution Center recovery media utility. I booted from it, but saw nothing except doing a recovery to a bootable drive. Wasn't there supposed to be a Recovery Console where I could copy program files to the drive and...

My laptop came with Win 7 installed by Lenovo. There is no OS installation or Recovery CD. This may help. I found a Win 7 64 bit upgrade CD that Toshiba sent me when Win 7 was released in Oct. 2009. It was a freebie with my Toshiba Satellite laptop, which came with Win Vista. Can I use...

You guys are killing me. What is "console mode"? Is it "Safe Mode with command prompt"?

Like you wrote, I get this message when I request a /F or /R scan..... The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts...

No matter when I initiate the chkdsk request, it cancels itself. I've scheduled chkdsk to scan after returning from standby, after returning from hibernate mode, after returning from a shutdown and after returning from a restart. For the most part, when I.m not using it I leave it in standby...

My Lenovo Thinkpad T530 laptop ( Model 2359-CTO, buy date: 11/11/2012 ) developed a problem that I can't seem to fix. When I schedule a chkdsk with the /F or /R command line parameters, namely making it a read / write operation by having it fix errors and recover bad sectors, instead of being a...

In my post above, #27, I used the wrong term when referring to my desktop pcs Storage Configuration setting in BIOS setup. I meant AHCI. In Device Manager's "System devices", my recent update was for the ATK0110 ACPI Utility. I don't know if the two terms have anything to do with each other...

I refuse to believe that keeping a pc running indefinitely doesn't shorten the life of EVERY energized component. I use Hibernate for when I'll be away from the desktop for half a day or so. But when I'll be gone for a few hours, Sleep is so much more convenient. Either my KB or mouse is set...

I read the entire article, which by the way has nothing to do with Windows 7, but I was able to find similar locations on my pc. I saw nothing that pertains to my problem. In fact the article is about the inability to wake a pc from a sleep, not preventing a freeze when attempting to put a pc...

Considering the "probable" damage to my two drives as a result of repetitive restarts when my attempts at putting the pc to sleep end up with a systemic freeze, I'm NOT willing to experiment with the many device drivers in Device Manager unless somebody can guide me further after reading the...

Thank you for the assignment. I disabled automatic Windows Updates a very long time ago. I manually check daily, which is probably a waste of time. When updates appear, I look over the titles and uncheck those that I don't think are necessary and hide them. If there are multiple modules I...

The BIOS automatically reset to factory defaults after the update, at which point I customized them. But my problem is more recent than the time I did the update. My pc was purring along after the update, until the sleep issue appeared. I started this thread, because I've exhausted every...

Yes Sir, I do this manually several times a day. The January 12, 2014 monthly update didn't appear ( ?? ) to deal with my issue. I know that it's rare, but a Windows Update module can create a problem instead of solve one. What do you think? How can I check if this is true?

You have a good memory, but you're confused about the current type of freeze. Yes, the BIOS update stopped the sudden pc freezing that was the result of a glitch with the ASUS MB supplied Q-Fan Control program. Now I've enabled it in BIOS, and I haven't had a freeze since the update. My...

What hardware do you mean? I have a PS/2 Microsoft Internet keyboard. I have a USB based Logitech cordless / optical mouse. I have two Altec Lansing speakers and a sub-woofer. There's nothing else. If I haven't changed anything or modified any of these items for years, how could they have...

Why does the attached file list as an Error, some of my High Performance power option profile settings? Aren't they my decision? By the way, I haven't changed the settings for a very long time, meaning that the freezes had to come about as a result of some other change in the pc. As...

You and Stereodude think I have a driver problem. I agree, but have no idea what to do about it. Could either of you give me a list of actions to take, from the most probable to succeed to the least probable to succeed, or from the least invasive to the most invasive? I've already made...

In a post in the same blog that Handruin offered me above, I found a 2nd reference to the powercfg command line. It's powercfg /energy. It traces the drive for a minute, looking for efficiency errors. It found some. I attached the txt file, because I'm not sure if it hints at a possible...

It doesn't go to Sleep the 2nd time, evident by the fans and drive still spinning. It freezes, which is why neither the keyboard nor the mouse can awaken it.

Maybe I wasn't clear about my symptoms. The first time I put the pc to Sleep after a restart, everything is fine. The fans stop. The drives stop. Either the mouse or keyboard awakens it. It's when I attempt to put it to Sleep the next time without a restart first...

Can you narrow it down to what device you have in mind, so I can go through Device Manager and either attempt to find an update or disable the driver?

I have an update..... I restarted the pc into my Win XP Professional 32 bit drive. I was able to put the pc to Sleep 3 times in a row without a freeze. It appears that my Win 7 Ultimate OS has a software glitch. Does this finding help in any way?

My desktop pc uses the Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit OS. When I put it to Sleep, either with the programmed Sleep key on the Microsoft Internet Keyboard or with the Sleep selection in the Start Menu area, the fans and hard drives stop spinning and the monitor's display turns off. I can awaken it...

Never having been on this forum before now, I innocently wrote this thread in the "Computers" forum..... I just ordered a 180GB Intel 530 series SSD. I'm going to install Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit on it. It will be the newest addition to a 4 1/2 year old desktop pc. My current boot drive is a...

Yes, it was. It's still on sale here..... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167174 No promo code needed. Get them while they're HOT!

Wanting to make this project a short one, I ordered a 180GB Intel 530 series SSD from Newegg last night. I'll have it on Fri. or Mon. Now I need more "very expensive" DDR2 1066 SDRAM to expand my MB from 4GB to either 8GB or 16GB, after installing Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit on the SSD. I thank...

I just ordered a 180GB Intel 530 series SSD. I'm going to install Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit on it. It will be the newest addition to a 4 1/2 year old desktop pc. My current boot drive is a Samsung 250GB SATA drive with Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit installed on it. I have 2 x 2GB DIMMs on an ASUS P5Q...