My laptop has been feeling like it was ‘slowing down,’ quite progressively over the last two weeks.

Of course, it’s been rather warm, and I thought it might have been due to the thermal sensors, but, no, the CPU fan really wasn’t running that hot, and this model laptop has no HD dedicated fan.

Hmm.

So, I decide to check my hard disk. Almost 50% fragmentation. Ow. Now that’s a feat. Of course, only halfway through did the whole system start to ‘stutter’ on a few specific files.

Great.

Abort the optimization, and set for chkdsk. Reboot. Wait three hours. Over 74 dead clusters, and several files lost (thankfully, none belonging to Windows).

So, I let chkdsk fix it. Now what:

Oh. Good. It’s still broken.

Anyone have a spare 2.5” SATA HD that’s at least 80GB they’d like to relinquish control of?

Pretty please?