Can a defective HDD cause a PC to not even boot?

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 27, 2016

My pc started not booting into Windows 7 after I'd been using a defective 160GB HDD. It was only after I removed the defective HDD that I was able to reinstall Windows and get things back to normal.

Could the failling HDD have caused this or was it only a coincidence?

weberdarren97 · Aug 27, 2016

The hard drive is what contains Windows. If it becomes damaged or begins to malfunction, Windows will definitely be affected.

So, yes. It can cause these sort of issues.

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 27, 2016

weberdarren97 :

But in this case the failling HDD had Windows 10 but I had another 2 HDD's with Windows 7 and 10 on them, and my main OS was Windows 7 if I'm not mistaken. I don't remember now whether the failling HDD had the main OS now... :- I

azaran · Aug 27, 2016

Yes, I've had even storage drives when they die prevent a system from being able to boot. Yank the failing drive and see if you still have boot issues.

weberdarren97 · Aug 27, 2016

Sometimes, Windows puts pieces of important data on drives that are not the boot drive. If this is the case, and one of the storage drives fail, you must force Windows to rewrite said data.

This is done by removing the problem drive from the system. If you had manually configured the drive in BIOS, you would delete its information; if not, then nothing needs changed in BIOS.

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