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Black screen when Windows boots!
jraju:
Hi, Is your computer atleast starts or no lights showing?
TLG11:
--- Quote from: jraju on September 22, 2013, 03:35:59 am ---Hi, may be your Smps has become unusable. This does not cause loss of data. try replacing the smps and then try to boot. The POP is a electrical surge that denotes, that there is some short circuit or extra surge of pulse, damaging the smps. That could be tried.
Shane would be happy to help you more in this regard, as i have also experienced and then replacing the smps, the computer becomes normal.
It has nothing to do with the drive or data. It is a electrical tab, distributing the electricity to the computers.
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I don't know anything about HDDs, so I have no idea how to proceed. The "pop" is more of a quick sliding-back sound. It's hard to describe. Should I get help from somebody with knowledge about it?
2nd question: It's not my main HDD. It's a spare drive that I used to have files from my old PC on. About 4-5 months ago I cleared it, formatted, and put my saved school material, some games, some music softwares in. Then one evening it just stopped appearing. Now today it starts that wheezing/squeak followed by a pop/slide. I can screenshot the error in event logger. It's the same that happened to D:, but D: recovered after I installed the USB Controller. Maybe it was that driver that permanently damaged E:?
Shane:
Sounds like you might have what is know as the click of death.
It is a click sound from the drive. It means the drive is dead.
In the hard drive you have 3 spinning platters and a magnetic arm that goes between them that does all the reading and writing. The click you here is when the control chip for the arm is messed up or something else has and it is just the arm moving back and fourth and clicking when it reaches the end. The arm isnt responding. So while the data is still on the platters the arm cant read or write anything.
At least that is one reason for the click of death.
Shane
TLG11:
--- Quote from: Shane on September 23, 2013, 10:45:50 am ---Sounds like you might have what is know as the click of death.
It is a click sound from the drive. It means the drive is dead.
In the hard drive you have 3 spinning platters and a magnetic arm that goes between them that does all the reading and writing. The click you here is when the control chip for the arm is messed up or something else has and it is just the arm moving back and fourth and clicking when it reaches the end. The arm isnt responding. So while the data is still on the platters the arm cant read or write anything.
At least that is one reason for the click of death.
Shane
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Yeah. I'm thinking about buying some new harddrives and copy all my important info there, aswell as installing a brand new Windows on one of the new harddrives. I also know my music production software is quite cranky about how it wants to operate, so I wonder if it will pretty much break my current projects or something.
I might have gathered a bit too much personal stuff on my PC over the years. I'm just hesitating because of what 'might' happen to my data once I switch, and what I might miss, or what can be lost if the other harddrive fails aswell. It's all a weighing of "I need to do this as a precaution." and "Can I keep on like this and be fine for a while longer?".
I became pretty paranoid about my other HDDs which are about the same age. I'm thinking they might break any day, so right now I just keep the PC off. I know harddrives might fail any day with no warning though. No telling when. I'm just unsure what to do right now.
I was told a big electronics do HDD repairs that might just fix my E: drive. Would that work, or is that a no-go with click of death?
Shane:
Which is why in every system in my house, especially my work computer I always have my drives setup in Raid 1 (Mirroring)
So I have 2 drives installed setup in raid 1, one drive fails I have everything on my mirrored drive. And that is on top of my nightly backups I do to my external drive :-)
Shane
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