Overclocking, Bsods, and the hard drive

  • Thread starter Thread starter cje
  • Start date Start date

cje

cje

cje

Associate
Joined
3 Jan 2009
Posts
786
I'm in the process of finding stability with my overclock, and my hard drive coud take so many Bsods, and froze during windows boot. So had to perfom an install, it left my old windows in windows.old. Now, its working all fine, but I still am ironing out the Bsods, but what should I do to my hard drive in order to stop it getting to this state again? I was defragging quite a lot before, run chkdsk a after a few bsods?
 
Take a disk image of the working install using Ghost/Acronis/Whatever, only be a few GB. Take only a few minutes to put it back again if you break it.

Take it easy with the re-boots, it's very stressful on the machine to continually re-start it. Try incrementally working up from a stable overclock rather than go straight in at 5GHz and work backwards... :D
 
yeah, it's more or less stable now. By more or less I mean I can run it all day one day, then maybe tomorrow it'll bsod.

Can you burn the disk image from these software onto a cd? or would a dvd be needed?
 
Well you can, but it would be a slower restore. Better an external drive, or best a second internal (for speed). You might squeeze it onto an 8GB flash drive too.
 
I've plenty of external USB HDDs. But how would you recover the disk. Say my main drive was unbootable, how would I get Acronis to rebuild the drive again?
 
Boot from the Acronis CD, tell it to restore the C: drive, point it to the backup on your USB drive as the source. Leave it to get on with it.
 
Damn, too late, my pc decided not to boot again this morning. It seems like a bad HD or something. I hadn't overclocked anything yet. It got to the windows logo, then restarts every time.

I didn't reformat before this install. Maybe if I'd reformatted then it wouldn't happen? Or maybe just a bad HD?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom