David Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 Ok, this is really starting to annoy me now...Yesterday my pc started to behave very odly out of the blue, I kept getting the blue screen of death and stop errors (Unkown hard error) I began to run scandisk which took quite some time but did finally complete. I thought this had cured it until I got the stop error again. I restarted the pc and now I am getting a boot disk failure! The HD (Sata) is not being detected in the bios (I have checked the connection and even plugged it into a different sata socket) I can hear the harddrive trying to spin (Its not making the deadly clicking noise) I am assuming it could be a corrupt MBR? Problem is I cant fix anything as the harddrive isnt detected at all! Any ideas? Ive thought about putting an old IDE Hd with windows on and seeing if somehow I can access the sata hd from within windows although I think this is unlikely if its not detected in the Bios.Any ideas!?Thanks,Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I had a very similar problem a couple of years ago. It suddenly started running very slowly, at that time i was copying data between two disks and it just took ages. Ran scandisk which also took ages to complete and after I restarted the PC, the HDD was no longer there. Turned out that the HDD died due to a mechanical error. I'm no expert, but if that's the case and you want to retrieve data from your harddisk, DON'T use it and take it straight to a data lab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orgun_Donor Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 Yea hard drive is dead. You dont always get the click of death, more then like to be a problem with the Controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0llie Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 i would put another hdd in, and use your one now as a secondary one. transfer files across once you've formatted. sounds like your hdd has died? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted July 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 Its a bit frustrating, looks like ill have to warranty the HD. I cant believe how easy it happened though, unless it was a faulty batch.Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie >est< Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I put a broken HD in the freezer once, it worked after (for 5 mins) I dunno why?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I put a broken HD in the freezer once, it worked after (for 5 mins) I dunno why??The parts get closer together and work for a bit, if you have just a few files you really really need on a dead HD, you can put it in the freezer, plug it back in and hopefully have enough time before it defreezes to transfer your files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted July 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 The parts get closer together and work for a bit, if you have just a few files you really really need on a dead HD, you can put it in the freezer, plug it back in and hopefully have enough time before it defreezes to transfer your files.Yeah ive done this before with ipods, the arm gets stuck in place. Its not as usual for it to happen on a big hardrive though, often happens in 2.5" laptop drives and as I said Ipods. I think it may be because the the MBR is somehow corrupted and the drive is trying to constantly read it but failing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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