Is is my HDD?

danyjr

danyjr

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Hi there,

2 days ago I got the Blue Screen of Death while playing a game, I restarted the PC, and it started normally.

Yesterday however, I got the BSoD again while playing another game. I restarted but this time I'd get either of these two errors:

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or

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No matter what I did last night, I could not resolve the issue. However, upon turning on my PC this morning, the Windows booted up with no problem and I've been using it for a few hours so far (no gaming) with no problems. But as we all know, there is a problem and I want to find out what it is before it completely breaks my whole system.

So I've run Memtest and ChkDsk and I haven't found any problems in my RAM or HDDs and it is kinda confusing why I was getting such errors yesterday. Could it be my GPU overheating? But if that's the case, why the errors above?

Specs:
Intel Core i7 920
WD 2TB Blue (this is where Windows is installed)
WD 4TB Black (this is where games are installed)
nVidia GeoForce GTX 670
Running Windows 10 Pro x64

If you could shed some light on my problem, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
 
I don't think that the 0xc00000e9 BSOD code is caused by a GPU overheating. It seems to be disk related.

How old is the drive in question? This BSOD can be caused by a failing hard drive/failing SATA controller/incorrect disk mode in BIOS. When you had problems last night, did you check to see if the disk was appearing in the BIOS correctly?

That second screenshot is suggesting that the system can't read the disk.
 
Hi, thanks guys.

My HDD is about 9 years old now, so pretty old I guess. But if there are bad sectors in the hard drive, wouldn't ChkDsk have picked up on them?

If by checking the disk in BIOS you mean seeing that both HDDs appear (Master & slave) in the BIOS, then yes, I did check them and they seemed fine.
 
If the hdd is 9 years old.... I'd suggest it would certainly do no harm to acquire another hard-drive, and do a backup of all on the current hard-drive. At least you would know you have any important stuff saved elsewhere from which to do a recovery from. :)
 
Have you tried system repair/system recovery?

I'd have another drive ready to make a back up to before I tried that just in case it's the last time it boots.


Or try bootrec/ maybe?
 
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