know anything about hard drives?

superrandall64 · 03-02-2006, 05:50 PM

i think i may have a busted hard drive... dont wanna replace it for nothing. it's a 200 gig samsung spinpoint series 3.0 gb/s.

so here's what's happening. computer stopped working completely a number of days ago. i turn it on, nothing. cooling fans are on, power indicator light is on... nothing else happens. no blinking cursor on the monitor or nothing. sometimes though... the pc actually starts up. i figured it was probably something missing in windows... like an important startup file or something (if that's a stupid assumption, forgive me.) so i erased the hard drive. computer still stayed on and worked and everything. sometimes. sometimes it goes back to what it usually does... just powers on. when it does actually work, and i try to re-install windows, i get one of those "i stopped because of this" errors, after researching those 0x0000000A errors, i've deducted that because it had a problem with cyclic redundancy... and the 0A instead of 0? says it had a problem writing (as opposed to reading) so... can hard drives sort of break? this is the only hard drive in this computer, and it's the only hard drive i own that connects in this way. it's one of those newer red cables. as opposed to the thin wide grey one. my mobo doesn't support the wide grey one, so i cant trouble shoot that way. i'm trying not to waste to much money here, so i can use my tax return for some upgrades!

so... if you have a clue what else it could be... or you could verify that it is in fact the hard drive lemme know please. also! when it works, i get my post beep. when it doesn't work... it's silent. when i first noticed the problem, through a few turn on, turn off trials... i eventually had this alarm go off. it was fast beeping that continued till i turned off the computer.

spacedude89 · 03-02-2006, 05:59 PM

Hmm, its seems more like a RAM problem too. if you can get it to start up,
run Memtest (http://www.memtest86.com/)

I think thats the right program, if anyone has a better program post it.

Antiodontalgic · 03-02-2006, 06:08 PM

Did you update any drivers??

Sometimes if a driver isn't WWQL verified it will do things like that.

And Yes, Hard Drives do break over time.

superrandall64 · 03-02-2006, 06:30 PM

well... i haven't updated drivers or changed anything at the time it stopped working anyway. it had been working fine for days and days... just sitting there, then one day i came home and it was turned off. i tried to turn it on and it did it's thing. also... when it does turn on... i wiped the hard drive and haven't successfully been able to re-install an os... so is that memtest thing like in bios?

Antiodontalgic · 03-06-2006, 03:17 PM

Yes, Memtest is located in BIOS.

03-02-2006, 05:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
superrandall64 Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 43	know anything about hard drives? i think i may have a busted hard drive... dont wanna replace it for nothing. it's a 200 gig samsung spinpoint series 3.0 gb/s. so here's what's happening. computer stopped working completely a number of days ago. i turn it on, nothing. cooling fans are on, power indicator light is on... nothing else happens. no blinking cursor on the monitor or nothing. sometimes though... the pc actually starts up. i figured it was probably something missing in windows... like an important startup file or something (if that's a stupid assumption, forgive me.) so i erased the hard drive. computer still stayed on and worked and everything. sometimes. sometimes it goes back to what it usually does... just powers on. when it does actually work, and i try to re-install windows, i get one of those "i stopped because of this" errors, after researching those 0x0000000A errors, i've deducted that because it had a problem with cyclic redundancy... and the 0A instead of 0? says it had a problem writing (as opposed to reading) so... can hard drives sort of break? this is the only hard drive in this computer, and it's the only hard drive i own that connects in this way. it's one of those newer red cables. as opposed to the thin wide grey one. my mobo doesn't support the wide grey one, so i cant trouble shoot that way. i'm trying not to waste to much money here, so i can use my tax return for some upgrades! so... if you have a clue what else it could be... or you could verify that it is in fact the hard drive lemme know please. also! when it works, i get my post beep. when it doesn't work... it's silent. when i first noticed the problem, through a few turn on, turn off trials... i eventually had this alarm go off. it was fast beeping that continued till i turned off the computer.

03-02-2006, 05:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
spacedude89 Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Oregon Age: 19 Posts: 1,419	Hmm, its seems more like a RAM problem too. if you can get it to start up, run Memtest (http://www.memtest86.com/) I think thats the right program, if anyone has a better program post it. __________________ Desktop: Abit AW9D-MAX ~ Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 2.4GHz ~ Radeon X1900GT Laptop: HP ~ Core Duo T2050 ~ nVidia 7600 First smiles, then lies. Last comes gunfire.

03-02-2006, 06:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
Antiodontalgic Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Coalton, Ohio Age: 21 Posts: 359	Did you update any drivers?? Sometimes if a driver isn't WWQL verified it will do things like that. And Yes, Hard Drives do break over time. __________________ "What you mean I have to work while at work?" Earn prizes and cash by signing up and doing offers or surveys. Get started by clicking Here

03-06-2006, 03:17 PM	#5 (permalink)
Antiodontalgic Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Coalton, Ohio Age: 21 Posts: 359	Yes, Memtest is located in BIOS. __________________ "What you mean I have to work while at work?" Earn prizes and cash by signing up and doing offers or surveys. Get started by clicking Here

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03-02-2006, 06:30 PM	#4 (permalink)
superrandall64 Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 43	well... i haven't updated drivers or changed anything at the time it stopped working anyway. it had been working fine for days and days... just sitting there, then one day i came home and it was turned off. i tried to turn it on and it did it's thing. also... when it does turn on... i wiped the hard drive and haven't successfully been able to re-install an os... so is that memtest thing like in bios?