Did i just bork my hard drive?

kyttike

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I recently got myself a SSD (crucial mx100 256gb) and i switched from a HDD to a SSD. The transition was pleasant and harmless.
Before, when i was on my HDD, when installing windows 7, i had a partition made(HDD was 1tb, i made a partition of 90gb), so when i needed to change or reinstall my operating system, i could have some place to back up to. I upgraded to Windows 8.1

Now when on the SSD, i had no need for the partition anymore, so i transfered all of my data to the bigger, now empty, part of the HDD and then deleted the 90gb partition. After that i tried expanding the 1tb-90gb partition to its full size using a program Partition Magic (i think). It prompted a restart so I did it. After restarting, i started getting 0xc000000b errors at startup, saying windows 8 needed repairing. So i tried refreshing, formating and reinstalling. None of that worked.
Now that was yesterday, today morning i got the idea(which was pretty logical), that the problem is not in the SSD but the HDD so i disconnected it (by removing the power cable from it). And then everything started working again.

When my windows was crashing, i used the repair tools and i saw while using the file explorer, that i could still put files on the "broken" hdd, so its not totally blocked out. Right now when writing this post i have it disconnected but im going to connect it once and try to repair it using tools. If that doesnt work, I'll disconnect the HDD again and download a bootable partition manager and try to use that to fix the HDD.

While im doing all that i thought id ask for your opinion while i do this. Im not gonna do it right away, ill wait for an hour or two so if the idea that i have is very stupid, you can post here and i wont do it.
Do you have any recommendations for me(what programs to use, or should i just give the HDD to a professional to fix)
 
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Hey kittyke. That's a bit unfortunate, but it should be fixable. I would recommend that you follow the instructions from this link: http://www.microsoftdlls.com/troubleshoot-windows-error-0xc000000b/. This might fix your problem. And after that you could download Data Lifeguard Diagnostic software from here: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810 and use it to Write Zeros on the HDD so that you are sure that there's no trace of anything left on the drive (like system or boot partition or anything like that)

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
Hey kittyke. That's a bit unfortunate, but it should be fixable. I would recommend that you follow the instructions from this link: http://www.microsoftdlls.com/troubleshoot-windows-error-0xc000000b/. This might fix your problem. And after that you could download Data Lifeguard Diagnostic software from here: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810 and use it to Write Zeros on the HDD so that you are sure that there's no trace of anything left on the drive (like system or boot partition or anything like that)

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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Nuwan Fernando

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As I feel what has happened is your first partition is a primary partition. The 2nd one is a logical partion inside an extended partition. When you delete your 1st partition you deleted your primary. Then extending the logical partition should have made the problem. (As I can remember the first partition should be a primary partition) If you can boot to windows, See if that's the case using disk management. (Green color border will show the extended partition)

Try shrinking that partition from the front and create another partition (That will be a primary). Then expand that to have the space you want. If needed you may remove the extended partition completely.

Else a fresh installation with recreating the partition should definitely fix your problem.

Good luck!
 

kyttike

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I resorted to just wipeing the HDD(it took like 6 hours or so) using the UltimateBootCD on a USB stick.
And after that i could boot fine with both drives plugged in.
Thank you for your time!
 

kyttike

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I forgot to mention that i had a Hitachi HDD, but you got me to the right track with writing 0-s.
Thank you!