Requiring urgent help! Hard Drive Logical Failure

Charkszx

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May 9, 2016
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Hello, recently I've encountered a logical failure in my hard drive. The system can detect the presence of the hard drive, so It's natural to rule out the possibility of a phsycal hardware damage.

So the story goes like this:
I was deleting some useless files and games on my PC, everything was fine until I deleted a game folder on my desktop. The deletion took ages for a 2 GB game, since I was running out of patience, I decided to restart. That is when my entire system crashed. The restart process took more than an hour before it froze and the screen turned black.

I suspect it's a logical system crash, is there any way for me to repair this and extract the data, or do I have to take it to an expert?

Now, every time I turn my PC on, it won't boot to Windows 8, but keeps on giving me the error 0xc00000e9 code.

Please help! Any suggestions are much appreciated.
 
Solution
Well buy a new hard drive and reinstall windows on it. Then you can add the old hard drive and "Hopefully" access files off of it.

BUT Try this first - Go into BIOS - 1) Make sure the HDD mode is set to AHCI 2) Disable Fastboot in the bios. On restart mash the F8 key and try to get into safemode and see if that boots or not.
Well buy a new hard drive and reinstall windows on it. Then you can add the old hard drive and "Hopefully" access files off of it.

BUT Try this first - Go into BIOS - 1) Make sure the HDD mode is set to AHCI 2) Disable Fastboot in the bios. On restart mash the F8 key and try to get into safemode and see if that boots or not.
 
Solution
Hey there, Charkszx!

I'd second @drtweak's recommendation and advise you to attempt to boot into SafeMode. If you are able to do that, you should definitely try running the HDD manufacturer' brand-specific diagnostic tool or a third-party alternative to determine the health and SMART status.

I'd also recommend you to check how the HDD appears once you've swapped the SATA cable and changed the SATA port that it's connected to on the motherboard. This error indicates a conflict between the hard drive and the SATA controller, so if you have access to another PC, I'd suggest you plug the drive there and see how it will get detected.

You might also want to check the motherboard/computer manufacturer's website for any updates on the SATA controller & chipset drivers.

Hope it helps.
SuperSoph_WD
 

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