- Apr 20, 2013
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So, my problems started a few days ago while running FL Studio. Dragged and dropped an audio file and crash. The music keeps playing but my PC is frozen. I thought it was interesting (I built it over a year ago, but it's never crashed without an obvious reason), but I rebooted and went about my business.
The next day I get home from work and a text file is up on the screen with one of my wife's normal messages. So, I close the out Word and it happens again. Frozen. I reboot it and it seems to be booting extremely slow. It boots fine, but not until after I decide to leave it for about 5 minutes. Over the course of the day, while trying to diagnose the issue, it seems to be getting worse. Until eventually the BIOS isn't recognizing the hard drive at all. I was seriously hoping that maybe it was a motherboard or PSU issue, but I've been using Ubuntu (installed on an 80GB SSD and an old 320GB HDD) fine since removing it and it my wife's PC wouldn't recognize it.
Anyway, that's one of the interesting things. What happened was I hooked it up to my wife's PC, it wasn't recognized by the BIOS, and so I just gave up and went to bed. The next morning my wife is asking me how I messed up her PC. I told her that I didn't do anything to her PC, thinking that she was just referring to the fact that I left the side of it open. But then she starts telling me that while trying to stream some games with her brother last night, it kept crashing every few minutes. So, I remove the hard drive, thinking that's weird as heck. Now, after removing the seemingly dead hard drive, her PC is back to working perfectly fine. I tried it again, just to see if it wasn't a fluke, and it's repeatable. This dead hard drive is trying to other PC's. Any ideas?
There's a ton of really important data on the hard drive (yes, I know I should have backed it up, I'm a retard). But even if the data can't be recovered, I'm still incredibly curious about the what the heck is going on with it. I'm a PC technician who used to work in networking at a three-letter agency and I have never seen anything like this. Anyone else smarter than me (given my hard drive backup habits, probably most of you) have any ideas?
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The next day I get home from work and a text file is up on the screen with one of my wife's normal messages. So, I close the out Word and it happens again. Frozen. I reboot it and it seems to be booting extremely slow. It boots fine, but not until after I decide to leave it for about 5 minutes. Over the course of the day, while trying to diagnose the issue, it seems to be getting worse. Until eventually the BIOS isn't recognizing the hard drive at all. I was seriously hoping that maybe it was a motherboard or PSU issue, but I've been using Ubuntu (installed on an 80GB SSD and an old 320GB HDD) fine since removing it and it my wife's PC wouldn't recognize it.
Anyway, that's one of the interesting things. What happened was I hooked it up to my wife's PC, it wasn't recognized by the BIOS, and so I just gave up and went to bed. The next morning my wife is asking me how I messed up her PC. I told her that I didn't do anything to her PC, thinking that she was just referring to the fact that I left the side of it open. But then she starts telling me that while trying to stream some games with her brother last night, it kept crashing every few minutes. So, I remove the hard drive, thinking that's weird as heck. Now, after removing the seemingly dead hard drive, her PC is back to working perfectly fine. I tried it again, just to see if it wasn't a fluke, and it's repeatable. This dead hard drive is trying to other PC's. Any ideas?
There's a ton of really important data on the hard drive (yes, I know I should have backed it up, I'm a retard). But even if the data can't be recovered, I'm still incredibly curious about the what the heck is going on with it. I'm a PC technician who used to work in networking at a three-letter agency and I have never seen anything like this. Anyone else smarter than me (given my hard drive backup habits, probably most of you) have any ideas?
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