Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
Personal bad experience with CC cleaner. Or more precisely with a too eager user. Suggesting a new rotational HDD sounds out of place in 2019.
This is a recurring problem with PC's as they get older: This might be useful
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I know from your previous post, that you have file copies on external HDD's (Good same as me) - Looking at the obvious, 3 1/2 Minutes to boot in Win 7 is very slow indeed and you may have a failing HDD on the PC, so it not a good idea to subject the drive to cleaning up unless you have cloned it first. If you look on Amazon (for example) there are disk cloning units for around the £35-40 Mark inc postage. I have not used one of these yet so all the usual caveats apply
I have put HDD's in USB enclosures both the 2.5" &the 3.5" types. I suggest that you consider using cloning units as an experiment but look at the reviews (remember Amazon scrambles the types in reviews) and of course other resellers are available.
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