- May 29, 2016
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Hello,
Some context
The laptop with said drive in it, Windows 8.1 incase you're wondering, started to display errors saying my harddrive might fail soon. This had happened after I had installed a game, after uninstalling the game the problem persisted. This continues for a few days until one day when I had opened a game the laptop simply freezes, nothing was responding.
The problem
I wait 15 minutes for it, still nothing. I therefore turn off the the computer, and turn it on again. It's an Acer so it has that circling loading thing before POST. It would get stuck on it, I reboot, this time it gives me the "preparing automatic repair" message on the Acer start logo, then a blackscreen after 20 seconds.
It appears that the computer switches between these 2 startups. Difference being one was stuck indefinitely, the other resulting in a black screen.
I troubleshoot shoot a bit, i eventually find my way to the culprit, the harddrive. I try to connect it to another system. At first, as the only drive, blackscreen, alright nothing wrong the actual laptop itself. Then i hook another harddrive on, trying to boot it from that. I get to the Windows loading bar, but a blackscreen after that.
Note I doubt it's mechanical as the harddrive is sounding completly normal when running and has always been. It's only 2-3 years old, anyways.
Any ideas/fixes? Is it dead?
I can post more info about the drive and systems used if needed
Many thanks. Hope it's not too much of a wall of text.
Some context
The laptop with said drive in it, Windows 8.1 incase you're wondering, started to display errors saying my harddrive might fail soon. This had happened after I had installed a game, after uninstalling the game the problem persisted. This continues for a few days until one day when I had opened a game the laptop simply freezes, nothing was responding.
The problem
I wait 15 minutes for it, still nothing. I therefore turn off the the computer, and turn it on again. It's an Acer so it has that circling loading thing before POST. It would get stuck on it, I reboot, this time it gives me the "preparing automatic repair" message on the Acer start logo, then a blackscreen after 20 seconds.
It appears that the computer switches between these 2 startups. Difference being one was stuck indefinitely, the other resulting in a black screen.
I troubleshoot shoot a bit, i eventually find my way to the culprit, the harddrive. I try to connect it to another system. At first, as the only drive, blackscreen, alright nothing wrong the actual laptop itself. Then i hook another harddrive on, trying to boot it from that. I get to the Windows loading bar, but a blackscreen after that.
Note I doubt it's mechanical as the harddrive is sounding completly normal when running and has always been. It's only 2-3 years old, anyways.
Any ideas/fixes? Is it dead?
I can post more info about the drive and systems used if needed
Many thanks. Hope it's not too much of a wall of text.
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