Hard Drive causing crash/blue screen

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fej180

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Hey guys,

My desktop has been acting pretty funny for a while. Extremely slow start up, and just running slow for about 15 minutes for it to get back to normal then it will go pretty fast. This is a pretty old computer, so its not blazing fast like the new ones today but it goes just about back to its normal speed after running for a little while. Well, about 2 weeks ago, I turned it on, and it wouldn't finish booting, so I restarted it again and it came up with a quick flash of BSOD and restarted and cycled that. I had just installed an old CD drive from another computer, so I thought maybe that was causing the problem, and so I unplugged that, but the problem was still there. That led me to believe it was my hard drive.

Since I didn't really have another hard drive laying around, but I had an empty external one, I took apart the external drive and put it in as my computer as the primary drive and loaded windows onto it thinking I would be able to use my old drive as a slave and pull the files and stuff I wanted off of it, format it and it would be good to go. The new hard drive worked great, and everything was good. Now that I had torn apart my external, I had a SATA to USB converter. I thought getting my old stuff would be as simple as plugging the old hard drive into the USB and copy and pasting. However, as soon as I plugged the hard drive in via USB, the computer recognized there was a drive plugged in and crashed and went into the BSOD cycle again.

So I thought of my second option which was plugged the drive into the secondary SATA connector on the motherboard, and made sure the right HD was selected as primary in the BIOS, and even when I did that the BSOD cycle happened.

So my question is...Is this hard drive toast? Is there any way to get my files? Thanks for helping.

Fej180
 
If the computer BSOD's while that drive is plugged in, it sounds like its bad or going bad. The only other thing I can suggest is try it in a different system and see if it does the same thing. I've seen some systems being very picky about things.
 
Ok, I tried it in my office computer this morning and it did the same thing as my desktop. I plugged it in, the computer recognized there was a drive and about 10 seconds later the computer crashed. Any more suggestions? Thanks
 
Sounds like there is a major problem with the drive if it does it hooked up to a different system. Hopefully you don't need any data off of it. And I'm not sure if booting to a linux live cd would help to get data off that drive.
 
thanks again for your help. There actually isn't anything super important that I have to have, but there are alot of things that I don't want to lose. I actually just made a Linux Live CD with Ubuntu the other day and installed Ubuntu on my compter as a secondary OS last night.i will try loading thehard drive on when I am on Ubuntu once I get home tonight and I'll report back.
 
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