- Dec 22, 2013
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It's a somewhat long story, but please bear with me:
A couple days ago I received a new WD hdd, installed it on my computer and even had people here help me with a strange issue I had during the process. Let me quote myself on a post from a few days ago: I was installing my new hdd, and the OS didn't seem to recognize it. While trying to fix that, the computer failed to boot for the first time, then...
Well, a short time after that, I've managed to install everything and have two working hard drives. Well, flash forward a couple of days, my computer failed to boot again after I decided to clean the CPU fan. But this time the position of the case didn't matter, it simply wouldn't boot. After messing with cables and plugs for two hours trying to understand what happened, I did something right and it came back. And then it failed to boot AGAIN yesterday. Pissed and committed to the problem, I spent an hour troubleshooting, until I mistakenly connected the secondary hdd to the primary hdd's red cable, at which pointed I noticed... there was no noise. See, it makes a little noise (like a faint whistle) when power is turned on, and now it didn't. So I proceeded to connect the primary drive to the other cable, and it worked. Really, it was only a cable? I then borrowed the cable from my optical drive and I soon had both hdds working.
The only reason I am here asking your opinion is because at some point when I was trying to reboot, a message came on the screen saying something about hard drive issues. I am still baffled by all this and my knowledge of hardware is limited. Do you guys think any harm was done to my primary hard drive? Do these SATA red cables often fail like this? What should I do if it happens again?
Thanks a lot for reading guys
A couple days ago I received a new WD hdd, installed it on my computer and even had people here help me with a strange issue I had during the process. Let me quote myself on a post from a few days ago: I was installing my new hdd, and the OS didn't seem to recognize it. While trying to fix that, the computer failed to boot for the first time, then...
Well, a short time after that, I've managed to install everything and have two working hard drives. Well, flash forward a couple of days, my computer failed to boot again after I decided to clean the CPU fan. But this time the position of the case didn't matter, it simply wouldn't boot. After messing with cables and plugs for two hours trying to understand what happened, I did something right and it came back. And then it failed to boot AGAIN yesterday. Pissed and committed to the problem, I spent an hour troubleshooting, until I mistakenly connected the secondary hdd to the primary hdd's red cable, at which pointed I noticed... there was no noise. See, it makes a little noise (like a faint whistle) when power is turned on, and now it didn't. So I proceeded to connect the primary drive to the other cable, and it worked. Really, it was only a cable? I then borrowed the cable from my optical drive and I soon had both hdds working.
The only reason I am here asking your opinion is because at some point when I was trying to reboot, a message came on the screen saying something about hard drive issues. I am still baffled by all this and my knowledge of hardware is limited. Do you guys think any harm was done to my primary hard drive? Do these SATA red cables often fail like this? What should I do if it happens again?
Thanks a lot for reading guys
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