Laptop is fucked

So.. I gave my old laptop to my girlfriend and her laptop was going all slow and what not, so she did a system restore.
After that she couldn't use google chrome, it said the files did not exist. I checked the hard drive and they were all there, so I decided to just try and re-install chrome. But when I click IE, it opens up (internet connection is fine) and when I attempt to go off the home page (Happens to be google so I can download chrome directly from there) the laptop slows down a lot and then IE doesn't respond.

I have ran CCleaner, disk clean up, dis defrag, flushed dns, ran a virus scan etc..

No idea what to do. anyone have any ideas?

 

Best option you go can with is formatting the HDD, after that you'll have a clean new PC.

 

That isn't an option.
She/I have filed on there that we don't want deleted.
We can't export them or anything because the laptop has no usb ports (all broken)

 

Not sure, but is your laptop wireless? I'm pretty sure there is a way of exporting files from one laptop/computer to the other by using the wireless network. Just an idea though.

 

Yeah if you know what you're doing you can connect another computer on the same network to the 'broken' one to pass on the files. It sounds like maybe something is wrong with the laptop's NIC since it's the internet connection what seems to be failing.

You get the same problem when you try doing anything else or only when you open the internet?



Anyways, you can use a program like CloneZilla to backup files. Since USB isn't an option you'd probably have to use a DVD+R DL. Another option is getting an external HDD with a firewire port (if your laptop even has one). Format your hard drive, and reinstall the OS if possible.

 

Plug the laptop's HDD into another machine, and extract the files that way. You can buy external adaptors on ebay cheaply.

You can also install a linux distro to CD or USB or external HDD, and browse the files that way.

 

I would do what Amethyst said. It could be that the hard drive has bad sectors and IE could have just been installed on one of those bad sectors causing it to freeze uncontrollably. If this gets worse, you are probably going to need a new hard drive. Also check out this guide by Microsoft to try and see if it can fix these bad sectors (if they exist): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors

 

or buy the cheapest portable external HDD that you can find. disassemble it and 99.999 percent of the time what you will find inside is exactly what you will find inside that laptop, assuming it uses SATA interface as most do nowadays. Just insert your laptop hdd, hook it to another computer, and just copy away. boom.
I bought a cheap one just like this bc I have a bunch of spare laptop HDD's laying around from upgrading my laptops over the past few years. Now, I have tons of storage and I only had to buy one basic usb3.0 external drive. cheap storage!

 

I would do this, since it's simple and easy.


You can turn your BT on from another computer and exchange files from another, I don't think you need internet so I don't think it can "run slow."

 

Another option if the wireless network transfer doesn't work for you would simply be to upload them to mediafire, etc and then once you have redownloaded them you could take them down. You could also get archaic and burn them to a disc?