- Aug 6, 2014
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I had a power issue (not sure exactly what) and my PC cut out and restarted on the motherboard splash screen. An a/c powered USB hub that was possibly plugged into a dodgy power socket died in the process (everything else was plugged in via a surge protected 6 pin)
I had a few difficulties getting it to boot up since then and had various issues from "disc read error press ctrl alt del to restart" to the HDD ot being in the boot list at all. I've managed to solve the issues by sometimes putting in the windows DVD and trying a start up repair (which always failed but then I could sometimes actually boot it up after a restart), then when it happened again and that wouldn't work anymore I seemed to be able to get by it to boot up by switching the SATA port the HDD was plugged into on the MOBO but before too long I get the same issues again and I'm running out of new ports to switch to
I'm not sure whether the HDD is damaged or the DATA on it is. I've run various options on bootrec.exe which doesn't seem to have helped. I ran a Seatools Short Drive Self Test (as it's a Seagate HDD) and it failed and suggested I run Seatools DOS but that I may lose data.
Does this sound like a data issue rather than hardware issue?
I don't really have that much data on there apart from programs, of which I have most of the installation files saved on an external drive but is it worth me buying a cheap HDD to make a clone or image of this one while I still have the ability to run windows - i.e before I run Seatools DOS and risk losing data?
Sorry for the essay and thanks for taking the time to read it. thanks in advance
I had a few difficulties getting it to boot up since then and had various issues from "disc read error press ctrl alt del to restart" to the HDD ot being in the boot list at all. I've managed to solve the issues by sometimes putting in the windows DVD and trying a start up repair (which always failed but then I could sometimes actually boot it up after a restart), then when it happened again and that wouldn't work anymore I seemed to be able to get by it to boot up by switching the SATA port the HDD was plugged into on the MOBO but before too long I get the same issues again and I'm running out of new ports to switch to
I'm not sure whether the HDD is damaged or the DATA on it is. I've run various options on bootrec.exe which doesn't seem to have helped. I ran a Seatools Short Drive Self Test (as it's a Seagate HDD) and it failed and suggested I run Seatools DOS but that I may lose data.
Does this sound like a data issue rather than hardware issue?
I don't really have that much data on there apart from programs, of which I have most of the installation files saved on an external drive but is it worth me buying a cheap HDD to make a clone or image of this one while I still have the ability to run windows - i.e before I run Seatools DOS and risk losing data?
Sorry for the essay and thanks for taking the time to read it. thanks in advance
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