Motherboard won't boot on HDD

Flecks

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So I made this build, and it worked fine for a good 4 months, even if the system would run quite slowly at times, no idea why. Only yesterday after I booted, it ran chkdsk to correct corrupt files. I went away for an hour or two and when I came back it was stuck on a black screen where it said there were no discs to boot from. I rebooted in BIOS to find out the HDD wasn't detected anymore. I tried changing the SATA port it was connected to with no result. Ran windows 7's repair disk with no result either: the HDD only came back in the boot options, but when I'd boot on it it would just freeze, reboot back and get stuck on the AsRock splash screen once again.[strike][/strike]

I have no clue wether this is a problem with the motherboard or the HDD, and I'm not really eager to buy another HDD just to find out it wasn't the root of my problem. So if only I could know the cause of this whole thing, that'd be great. I also wonder if it'd be wise to plug my HDD onto another working computer to see if I could access my files from another system.

I'm thinking of bringing the box to a professional to at least get a diagnostic or something.
 

Flecks

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After plugging it into my older computer it shows up into the device manager, but I can only access the files in the System Reserved partition. From the device manager, I can still see the properties of the other partition where my files are, but I can't access it, and if I use Windows 7's error-checking tool to scan it for errors it jams at 56807 files.

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Also here are some of the record files saved on the System Reserved partition, if that can help:

dislayout.txt
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: MININT-E5K17NH

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.


Disk ID: BCA6A0D1
Type : ATA
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1100)#ATA(C00T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 1 C System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy
Volume 2 D NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 E GSP1RMCHPXF UDF DVD-ROM 3167 MB Healthy
Volume 1 C System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy
Volume 2 D NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy

Volume 1 is the selected volume.

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B

Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Offline : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Installable : Yes

Volume Capacity : 99 MB
Volume Free Space : 70 MB

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.


Disk ID: BCA6A0D1
Type : ATA
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1100)#ATA(C00T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 1 C System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy
Volume 2 D NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 931 GB 101 MB

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

Partition 1
Type : 07
Hidden: No
Active: Yes
Offset in Bytes: 1048576

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 1 C System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy


bcdinfo.txt
The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
The requested system device cannot be found.


SrtTrail.txt
Startup Repair diagnosis and repair log
---------------------------
Number of repair attempts: 1

Session details
---------------------------
System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0
Windows directory =
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk failure diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 54148 ms

Test Performed:
---------------------------
Name: Disk metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 218 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Target OS test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Root cause found:
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No OS files found on disk.

Repair action: Partition table repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x3bc3
Time taken = 37410 ms

---------------------------
---------------------------
 

Flecks

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Alright I didn't follow this tutorial you linked me because I didn't really trust the programs they were telling me to use. On the other hand when I plugged my HDD back into my computer by some magic it appeared in the startup repair, I let it do its thing and when I came back I actually managed to see my desktop. The thing is the system was very unstable, everything was spazzing out and CPU usage was constantly getting jammed at 0% when I looked into the task manager. Eventually it had to restart and now I'm back with the same problem.

I got a Ubuntu disk to see if that would help in anything, but when I select "try Ubuntu without any change to your computer", it simply freezes and reboots. I am clueless here.

EDIT: My Ubuntu disk was an older version that didn't support UEFI... Oops!
 

Flecks

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I ran Seatools on the drive, and after repairing a few errors the drive looks fine and passed both the short and long test and I even managed to pass my files from it to my other computer drive.

I get a feeling that the problem here might be that my mobo is faulty, and that's what got the drive corrupted.
 
It is possible that we have a faulty Sata controller, but I have ones had an issue where file tables got corrupted on a ntfs system could not do anything, repair, format or install. Eventually found a third party tool that fixed it and did a clean install. The drive is still running though it is a SATA 150 drive from 2005 and had the problem less than a year old, has not had problems since.
 

Flecks

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Well no matter how much time I try to repair the drive, with any tools I can find, the errors come back. Now Linux disk utility says I got about 1500 bad sectors, so my drive is obviously screwed up, bad time. I think I shouldn't take any chance with it and replace it, and I'll bring my computer to a technician so that I know for sure there's no other problem with the SATA controllers or anything else.

Thanks a lot for your help anyway.
 

Flecks

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Well I bought a new WD hard drive, reinstalled Windows on that one, now it looks like the computer works fine. That faulty hard drive was the only problem there was.