Windows 8.1 Blank Blue Screen

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RazerZ

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Ok so my computer's hard drive has been giving me some problems and the last time I booted it up it had some problem to do with the hard drive, and it wouldn't boot up. Before the hard drive was working, but I noticed it would get really hot to the touch and occasionally it would stress at 100% usage and Windows would go slower.

Now it boots up and I can access the motherboard's BIOS, but after that it boots to a blank blue screen. I can't see the mouse cursor, but both the mouse and keyboard work in the BIOS.

I've tried mashing shift+f8 to try and access safe mode, but it simply showed what devices I could boot from...

I don't have another hard drive to test it with unfortunately, but I was wondering if there could be any other issue.

Thanks in advance.
 
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I'm not aware of any utility like that, but if it's not being detected in the BIOS, it's probably bricked. Do you happen to have a second PC that you could try to use with the HDD? By doing that we could find out if the drive is faulty or if the motherboard is to blame.
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Tried changing the sata port, no luck. The drive does show up in the BIOS. The little cylinder icon isn't blinking at all either ( it does during the bios logo, but not at the blue screen) , so I'm afraid no data is being read. Is it possible to launch a disk repair tool or something similar off a USB?
 
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I'm not aware of any utility like that, but if it's not being detected in the BIOS, it's probably bricked. Do you happen to have a second PC that you could try to use with the HDD? By doing that we could find out if the drive is faulty or if the motherboard is to blame.
 
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It's appearing in the bios, but I'm going to assume the HDD is the problem, and it's probably corrupted. Just ordered a new one off amazon. Thanks for the advice anyways.

I currently do not have any SATA hard drives with me, so I'll just have to wait till the new one arrives.
 
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