Is my PC a goner?

bigbadish

bigbadish

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Hi guys,

I was after a little advice. I have a 250gb WD Sata drive in my PC that has been flawless for the past 4 years, however about a month ago I would be surfing the web or gaming and all of a sudden I would hear what sounded like something losing all power and turning off, then my PC would blue screen and boot up every now and then.

This happened several times until it has now stopped booting all together, and after the windows loading screen comes up, the hdd makes the same noise (likes it's lost all power and shuts down* and it get the bsod.

I thought I was then screwed and would need to buy a replacement hdd, but I pinched a 40gb sata disk from work and plumbed that in under Sata 1 and installed Windows, and the "broken" hdd as Sata 2.

I am now back into Windows and I can see the "broken" hdd and navigate through it fine....

Therefore my question is what the heck is up with it if I can't boot from it, but I can install it as a secondary drive and it works fine.

Does that mean it's on its way out...

Any guidance would be great :)
 
windows could have got currupted therefore not boot up or the hdd is dying.
i would suggest you download WD Lifeguard Diagnostic tools and run a test on the hdd

also could you post your specs?
 
yeah its possible that the old Hdd is on its last legs. Scan with something like HDTune for bad sectors etc. It may have an intermittent controller issue or something similar id get what data you need off of it and either continue using the other one on its own or get a replacement.
 
SpiderX said:
windows could have got currupted therefore not boot up or the hdd is dying.
i would suggest you download WD Lifeguard Diagnostic tools and run a test on the hdd

also could you post your specs?
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Sorry, my spec is as follows:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
ASUS - A8N-SLI Premium PCI-E
Western Digital Caviar SE 200GB
NVIDIA X1900XT 256MB

I will run the above diagnostic tools above and see what happens, thanks.
 
Hi guys,

Well I've ran the WD diagnostic tool and HD Tune.

Is there anything in particular I should be looking for on these tests as as far as I could see they all came back OK and I couldn't see a problem, so the drive losing power and BSOD'ing is a mystery!
 
Well to update you :)

I have reinstalled Windows XP onto the disk and it now seems to be working fine, so I guess it's just one of those probles that I'll never find..

Thanks for the help.
 
Sorry mate, forgot about this thread. Windows seems to corrupt all by itself, I'm at a loss as to the cause. I'm glad a reformat solved it for you, it tends to be one of the first things I try when a computer is misbehaving.
 
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