Another dead hdd????

Bow · Apr 5, 2012

Hard Drive help please

Need some help guys, My pc was shipped across country and when it got here I turned it on and it would not get past windows starting screen. after several attemps I tried to reinstall windows. Once installed it would not update, reinstalled again and same problem, now windows will not install past 20%.

Is the hard drive dead??

I have an old WD 10,000rpm raptor can I use that with my currant system and load win7 on it?

See sys specs.

thanks for any help

Bow · Apr 5, 2012

Help please

lowrider_05 · Apr 5, 2012

yes you can use your raptor

lilhasselhoffer · Apr 5, 2012

1) Did you just ship the computer with the HDD in its place within the computer?
2) Is the heat sink on the computer still fully attached?
3) When you say shipped, what do you mean? Shipped by movers who could give a crap about your stuff, taken gingerly along with you on the car ride, something else? Shipping can do a substantial amount of damage in the wrong hands.

If the answer to 1 was yes, or you shipped with a moving company, then the HDD is 98% likely going to be dead. The 45 G limit that HDDs are generally rated for can easily be exceeded due to mishandling.

If you didn't remove the CPU heatsink then you could have damaged the board or simply had it come undone. You'll need to check that the heatsink is still properly mounted, and pray that the motherboard wasn't damaged.

Otherwise, we can't help. If you can't get into windows either the HDD was toasted, the motherboard was damaged, or the BIOS has gone insane. If you can get into the BIOS then you can rule out temperatures, but testing for HDD damage is difficult without some specialized equipment (or using another functional HDD with an OS to test out the other drive).

Techtu · Apr 5, 2012

Sound's like it could be the hard drive but as your now also trying to reinstall Windows then this extends the area of problem as I would also be thinking of your optical drive, have you got a different one you could test?

As lilhasselhoffer said, check your heatsink + cables an such make sure all is as it should be.

Bow · Apr 5, 2012

It was shipped UPS. Heat sink is fine and cables are all good.
after work i will swap the optical drive then hdd and see what happens.

Thanks guys

Techtu · Apr 6, 2012

How did it go?

Bow · Apr 6, 2012

After i loaded windows and the system restarted it froze in the same spot.

I reloaded windows. Installed my mobo disc and thats when things seem to go wrong.

I think its may be because i had it connected to the net and windows was downloading drivers and updateing the same time i was installing the mobo drivers.

TeXBill · Apr 6, 2012

Get windows loaded before doing anything else. Once windows is loaded do drivers then updates to windows. Hopefully drive is still ok.
Good luck & let us know how it goes.

Bow · Apr 7, 2012

I have tried that in that order with both drives and windows locks up at the same place on both drives. After the first update restart at the windows starting screen.

I am pulling my hair out!

Techtu · Apr 7, 2012

You say drives meaning hard drives, or optical?

Bow · Apr 7, 2012

Yep hard drives

Crap Daddy · Apr 7, 2012

Forget for now the updates. Install Windows. Is this going OK? Then all drivers OK?

Bow · Apr 7, 2012

Works fine until i try and update windows. Just restarted 5 times with no probs. Have mobo drivers instaled and no probs.

Going to connect to the net and try again

Bow · Apr 7, 2012

Going to run disc clean up and dump any crap, then try connetting to the net with updates off

Bow · Apr 7, 2012

Connected to the net down loaded and ran my uniblue registry booster. Ready to dl and install ms securities essentials and update windows.

Thats when windows locks up.

What am I missing?

baggpipes · Apr 7, 2012

Legit copy of windows? Have you tried dumping the SSD and install on regular hard drive? Is there some sort of bios setting that might need to be re-enabled since it was without power?

Bow · Apr 7, 2012

Legit windows. No ssd. Stock mobo bios

Bow · Apr 8, 2012

Pulled the mobo and its broken in several places.

Thanks for the help guys

m1dg3t · Apr 8, 2012

Bow said:
Pulled the mobo and its broken in several places.

Thanks for the help guys

Bad buzz man

Hope you had insurance :eek:

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Processor	AMD RYZEN 9 7950X 4.5ghz 16 Core
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Processor	AMD RYZEN 9 7950X 4.5ghz 16 Core
Motherboard	MSI MPG X670E Carbon wifi
Cooling	Quench 360 Liquid Cooler
Memory	2x 16GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR 5-5200
Video Card(s)	NVidia GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB GDDR6X
Storage	1TB Kingston NV2 M.2 SSD 2TB 2.5 SanDisk SSD Plus
Display(s)	Asus 28" VP28UQG 4K 3840x2160
Case	Athena M1, 6 Chassis Fans
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA Super Nova 1000W
Mouse	Razer Deathadder
Keyboard	Razer Ornata
Software	Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

System Name	SLOW-MO-SHUN III
Processor	AMD RYZEN 9 7950X 4.5ghz 16 Core
Motherboard	MSI MPG X670E Carbon wifi
Cooling	Quench 360 Liquid Cooler
Memory	2x 16GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR 5-5200
Video Card(s)	NVidia GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB GDDR6X
Storage	1TB Kingston NV2 M.2 SSD 2TB 2.5 SanDisk SSD Plus
Display(s)	Asus 28" VP28UQG 4K 3840x2160
Case	Athena M1, 6 Chassis Fans
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
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Mouse	Razer Deathadder
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Software	Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

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