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?
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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