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Hard Drive Failure?
Name: KNASTY Date: November 20, 2008 at 18:10:54 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP3 CPU/Ram: Athlon 3700+ / 1280MB
Comment:
I assume this is a hard drive problem but am not sure.
I started up my computer and i started to hear a noise that sounds like the hard drive spinning up then shutting down repeatedly (but it did boot up windows and let me open programs, even with that sound). After about a minute of that, it restarted itself, and repeated the noise and restarting a few more times. Then it booted into chkdsk, and fixed a few errors. And when it started back up it seemed to be fine, except AVG and a few other programs would not load up anymore because of "missing files".
I was wondering if this would be a definite hard drive failure or maybe a power supply problem?
Name: Richard59 Date: November 20, 2008 at 18:42:08 Pacific
Reply:
Unlikely a powersupply problem would cause files to go missing.
Download a harddrive diagnostic tool from the HDD manufacturer and run a drive fitness test from bootable floppy or CD.
That will tell you if you have a hard drive problem or should look deeper.
Goin' Fishin' (Some day)
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Response Number 2
Name: kx5m2g Date: November 20, 2008 at 19:24:22 Pacific
Reply:
You should also back up all of your files, and do an image of the C drive if you have the software.
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Response Number 3
Name: cliffpage Date: November 21, 2008 at 00:10:06 Pacific
Reply:
i would also check all cables are plugged in properly just in case its due to a poor connection, but it does sound to me like its probably hard drive failure.
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Response Number 4
Name: anupam Date: November 21, 2008 at 03:43:00 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like a HDD failure. Back up ur data first. And then run disk check up.
Anupam
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Response Number 5
Name: KNASTY Date: November 21, 2008 at 21:42:05 Pacific
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