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jutzy
post Aug 7 2010, 10:31 AM
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Hm, i have a hard drive and for some unknown reason its decided to die...well it is slowly dying.
its about half a year old... and some of my other hard drives are older than that...

what could cause it to fail in such a horrible way.

can i still save it (without the costly repairs)

what happens is ill be doing somthing and it will restart without warning... then it will proceed to tell me that there is a error loading opperating system.

ill power down my rig and then remove the sata plug and replace it back in... then reboot my machine, it then works untill the next crash.

there is no error codes associated with these crashes, just a random reboot.


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SirSquidness
post Aug 7 2010, 12:58 PM
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The random reboot will likely be a BSOD that doesn't appear.

Disable this automatic restart feature as described in ye holy link.

Wait for it to BSOD again and note the error given.

Does anything different happen if you don't replug the SATA cable before powering on again?


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- jutzy   Hard drive failure   Aug 7 2010, 10:31 AM
- - Wombie   sux2bu   Aug 7 2010, 01:05 PM
- - priorax   If it's only half a year old, back it up and R...   Aug 7 2010, 01:33 PM
- - jutzy   im actualy tempted to clone the entire drive to a ...   Aug 7 2010, 04:41 PM
- - soulink   just go into windows error logs, sometyimes that w...   Sep 17 2010, 05:43 PM
- - priorax   I love how R4N is normally the one who points out ...   Sep 17 2010, 09:42 PM
|- - R4N   QUOTE (priorax @ Sep 17 2010, 09:42 PM) I...   Sep 17 2010, 11:42 PM
- - SirSquidness   It's only a month old, it's not that bad ...   Sep 17 2010, 10:55 PM

 

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