Biggest most annoying problem /EVAR

Zefan

Zefan

Zefan

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So I come home last night and turn my PC on.

Powers up, goes past the bios and does some strange SATA stuff that it always does. The "Windows did something ROFL last time, what do you want to do?" selection screen appears. I think nothing of it and select "get on with it you P.O.S dos menu". Screen goes black, returns to bios.

Me being drunk, this continued with many different bios settings until I was simply too tired to carry on any longer. I cleared the bios, returned clocks to stock, every possible bios setting. Nothing. Safe mode does the same.

So I stick the windows disc I have handy (Home, not Pro which i have installed, but I've fixed windows boot errors in this way before) and select repair via recovery console. I write a new master boot record and boot sector, do "chkdsk /p" - which finds and fixes some errors - and reboot. THE SAME. Instead of going to recovery console, I next try going as if to install windows where I see that the drive is all being detected properly... puzzling. The disc makes the usual startup whirring but does not make the quiet ticking it normally does when accessing.

I'm beginning to think my HDD has simply kicked itself in the platter, anyone got any more idea's that I can try to salvage my PC from this pit of firey hell?
 
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Zefan said:
Me being drunk, this continued with many different bios settings until I was simply too tired to carry on any longer.
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This sounds very familiar , I'm a genius with BIOS configurations when I'm drunk aswell ! :D

They never work that well in the morning though ! :eek:

Good Luck

Cheers,

Mark
 
Oh just had another go and the drive is making ALL it's usual noises, the whirring, the ticking for access.... I'm really not sure what's wrong!
 
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Well this was my initial thought but it's still making all the correct noises and is decting fine - all the partitions show up properly when in windows setup. I might have to whack the disc into this system to see if it really has borked.

It's not that old, SATA WD 120gb (Can't rememeber the model).
 
The whole operating system runs off a CD whose contents are copied to system RAM. Most are based on Linux but there are some for other systems.

Your question suggests to me that you don't have any handy so if you don't feel like downloading one you might just skip to trying the HDD in a different machine as a non-boot disk.
 
I tried a dogged old IDE drive (The one I'm running on now on a different system) and it loaded fine, apart from no mouse or keyboard - due to driver differences between the systems. I take it I can safely say my HDD is borked?
 
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