HDD decided to die

[Luk3us 63]

So I turn my computer on this afternoon and what does it do?

 

"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER."

 

Tis very lame indeed. Now comes the fun part of trying to discover why its a piece of ****. The fact the BIOS can't see my HDD does not bode well.

 

 

MY SC2 SAVES!!!! NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo

[Nmenth 289]

Now comes the fun part of trying to discover why its a piece of ****.

With you as its owner, who wouldn't try committing suicide? It probably has been planning this since the day you downloaded the half-terabyte of porn (the first day).

 

MY SC2 SAVES!!!! NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo

Whiner, at least the second time through, you will know what you're doing. And if the game is half as epic as everyone is going on about, it'll be worth it anyway.

[Luk3us 63]

My uber l33t friends say its HDD controller is fried. So they say I should switch it out, then if that doesn't work throw it in a freezer.

 

There is only about ~200gb of porn on it actually. But there is some other stuff I'd like to recover, like all my music!

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Yeah, put it in the freezer for a few hours then hook it up and try it. Yes, that really does work but if it died, it won't work for a long time. Just enough to get your data back.

[recover 2]

I tried the freezer tip on a hdd that broke not too long ago. Sadly it didn't work very well for me. The hdd made a weird noise when it tried to spin up, and it kept doing that after the freezer.

 

I wish hdd's could tell you when they are about to fail with 99% certainty. Or at least a cheap and easy way to read back the data on the platters if the drive does fail in the end. Meh.

[Malevolence 6]

You should pass me the files as backup before u ruined ur silly useless hard disk!

[Ferret 0]

That doesn't beat my 1TB of porn, ha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lol jk.

[PurpleGaga27 37]

How come your HD got fried in the first place? Overheated? Connection problems?

Edited July 31, 2010 by purplescrin

[pichorra 4]

1° - Check if your SATA (or IDE) cable is sucefully connected into the Mobo and the Hard-Drive disk.

2° - Check if Windows Setup Disk (or ever an Linux Distribution disk, like Ubuntu, or even, a DOS bootdisk) detect the hard drive, if it's detected, probably, an virus has deleted the MBR of your HDD.

3° - if all of it do not fix your problem, then, your Hard Drive Disk died.

[Nyerguds 100]

Well he already said the BIOS didn't see the disk... no need to check from an OS then.

[Luk3us 63]

No change in the HDD front, though I found to my amazement that the SC2 campagin progress is tracked through your online profile. So I didn't lose any progress! YAAA....

 

This is the only time I'll ever think the whole online persistent thing is a good thing.

 

How come your HD got fried in the first place? Overheated? Connection problems?

 

I'm not entirely sure, though I'm leaning towards heat issues. As my comp has been running rather hot for hte last few months... But the rest of my comp seems fine. So I'm not sure.

[Inferno 22]

HDDs also just die randomly, it's a spinning disc. Which we shouldn't have anymore when SSDs rule the world

[Sonic 293]

What brand was the HDD?

 

So you will be needing replacement drive then? Go for Western Digital

[Luk3us 63]

Seagate Barracuda 500gb.

 

http://forums.cncnz.com/index.php?showtopic=10504

 

Its the replacement I received. So two years afterwards it dies too.

 

 

And yeah I prefer WD HDDs too, but one was old so yeah.

[PurpleGaga27 37]

Seagate Barracuda 500gb.

 

http://forums.cncnz.com/index.php?showtopic=10504

 

Its the replacement I received. So two years afterwards it dies too.

 

All Seagate HDs suck including the recent Maxtor HDs owned by Seagate. I used a new and recent Maxtor HD 500GB several years ago (which is now defunct and now owned by Seagate) and guess what happened, after several years some of the files in my HD got corrupted and cannot be read!! My previous HD was still noisy but not overheated.

 

That is what I would recommend Western Digital HDs; they are good and fast HDs and they tend to have less problems, especially for the installation for a new HD.

 

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Seagate fixed their latest firmware so drives are less prone to failure, but I've had so many bad experiences with them in the past that I refuse to buy their drives. I only get Western Digital and Toshiba hard drives (and OCZ for solid state).

[F15pilotX 4]

WD always for me.

 

Any luck now with the HDD?

[PurpleGaga27 37]

Any luck now with the HDD?

 

I bet Luk3us hasn't been here much lately since he probably would need to go to the Internet through a backup PC instead of the current one that had got his HD having technical problems.

Edited August 6, 2010 by purplescrin

[Luk3us 63]

WD always for me.

 

Any luck now with the HDD?

 

I found a hard drive that is the same as mine, so I'll do that strange circuit board swap a roo.

 

If that doesn't work, I'll just dump it, whilst I would love to save all my 'important' files. I can live without them.

 

I bet Luk3us hasn't been here much lately since he probably would need to go to the Internet through a backup PC instead of the current one that had got his HD having technical problems.

 

Yeah, but, I've just installed XP on another HDD I had in my comp. Though its only a stop gap measure till I get a new HDD or the old one is fixed. W/e

[Inferno 22]

By the way, did you try to hook it up anyway and use the other HDD for booting? If it's just the boot partition that's broken, your files should be fine.

[Luk3us 63]

OK, so I got a new HDD today stuck it in my comp and what happens? Nothing, doesn't detect ****. My ****ty IDE one is going fine though.

 

So let us recap.

 

Broken HDD - Doesn't work in my system, doesn't work in another system I used to test it.

New HDD - Doesn't work in my system, haven't tested it in another system yet.

 

If it turns out to be a half screwed sata mobo AND a screwed HDD I'll be very annoyed indeed.

[Guest Stevie_K]

I'm feeling with you

[Doctor Destiny 41]

It is possible to get a lemon...

[PurpleGaga27 37]

OK, so I got a new HDD today stuck it in my comp and what happens? Nothing, doesn't detect ****. My ****ty IDE one is going fine though.

 

So let us recap.

 

Broken HDD - Doesn't work in my system, doesn't work in another system I used to test it.

New HDD - Doesn't work in my system, haven't tested it in another system yet.

 

If it turns out to be a half screwed sata mobo AND a screwed HDD I'll be very annoyed indeed.

 

What brand of your new HD is it? Is it WD? Second, have you used a CD or floppy disk to boot in order to install a new installed HD for that brand in order to work?

 

Perhaps the plugs aren't connected tight enough on the motherboard and the new HD?

 

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Doesn't matter if the drive is initialized or not. The BIOS will still detect an uninitialized drive. That's only necessary for installing Windows or allowing Windows to see it as usable.