Posted February 6, 201311 yr FPCH Admin I have a Dell Inspiron M5110 that came preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Premium. Like the title says, The welcome screen just stays on for hours with hard drive light solidly on. Not one flicker in the light whatsoever. I also have trouble booting into Safe Mode, kind of a hit or miss type of thing. Once it has booted into Safe Mode, Welcome screen stays stuck for hours. I (thankfully) have Ubuntu 12.10 Linux (64-bit) on the computer. I booted into Ubuntu 12.10 to check the hard drive status and bingo, it said in the SMART data that I had one bad sector, just one. I also had a Blue screen of death regarding a REGISTRY_ERROR yesterday. Computer Specs: Processor: AMD A8-3500M APU Quad Core 1.5GHz Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6620G System Chipset: AMD A70M RAM Memory: 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SODIMM Hard Drive: Western Digital Corporation 500GB (WDC WD5000BPVT-75HXZT3) WiFi: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11 b/g/n I previously had the Stock Seagate 500GB HDD that came with the computer but it had to be replaced under warranty due to 1000 bad sectors and was failing according to SMART. The Western Digital is the replacement. Is there any way to fix this issue? View the thread Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
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