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Mike D
Mike D asked in Computers & InternetHardwareOther - Hardware · 1 decade ago

Hard drive bad...maybe?? Bad HDD controller?

I built my system about 5 months ago. Everything was working fine until one day I got the dreaded blue screen. I bring it to my computer guy and they tell me my hard drive is bad, so they install a new hard drive. I get it back, start it up, everything seems to be working fine but then my hard drive (the newly installed one) starts making a noise like it is going bad and my computer freezes up. I bring it back and they tell me I had some corrupted system files but that the hard drive was working fine. I bring it home and once again I have the same issue. Prior to all this happening I had an illegal copy of windows installed. Now I purchased Vista from tigerdirect and I am having the same issue.

Here is what I have:

EVGA nforce 780i SLI mobo

XFX GeForce 9800 GTX video

Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum sound card

OCZ SLI PC6400 DDR2 800MHz 8gb total

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Ghz CPU

I would bring my system back by I am loosing confidence in them and spending enough money where I am thinking about just rebuilding my system. Help please!!!

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  • Black D
    1 decade ago
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    1.Check if the IDE or SATA cable for this drive are ok and well plugged (might replace them just as a test);

    2.Check if the power cable used by the drive is ok and well plugged(I had problems some time with a power cable that caused my hard to stop) - just replace it with another one that is not used for a test;

    3.Check your drive for bad sectors (right click on the drive/Properties/Tools tab/Error-checking /Check Now and enable Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors in checkdisk) or use another software.

    If there is no error your hard drive should be ok and it might be a soft problem.

    4.If none of the above works try reinstalling Vista and formatting the drive when requested at installation as NTFS (normal format not the quick option).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There might be problem with your Hard Drive Cables and power supply. Try getting them checked immediately.

    Source(s): Hard Drive Forums - http://www.aboutcomputer.org/forumdisplay.php?f=51
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