- Feb 12, 2017
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Hello! I'm not positive on what is the exact problem, witch is the reason of this question, but here is a brief description:
A few days ago my Windows 10 PC suddenly became incredibly slow, so much that in a matter of minutes I was unable to open File explorer. While frustratingly waiting for anything to happen, I was greeted with the beauty and joy of BSOD, reading:
DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
Having known nothing about the error, immediate googling was required, witch, lasting almost two days now, has led me to a dead end. In the process of mending it, I first decided to try and reinstall Windows, but with no luck, as it froze every time on Windows' "Install Now" screen. After, an effort to open cmd.exe in Windows recovery did succeed, however, typing DISKPART would freeze the Command Prompt, and would not respond to any key. My intention was to try and format the C: partition and install Windows normally, hoping that it would fix whatever witchcraft was going on before. Still mindlessly searching the web, a day later, I managed to get Diskpart to work, using:
chkdsk c: /f /r /x
;With the result:
Also, I tried using Linux Mint's terminal to pull information, and ti reported that the drive was write-protected and read only. Gparted could not even start, it just kept scanning endlessly, and Gparted live crashed.
After witch I concluded that the HDD is toast, witch was reinforced by the fact that two other machines would not boot when the HDD in question was connected. The drive dosen't make any unusual mechanical noises.
My question is, since I am willing to give up all data but around 20GB of .wav files - my personal work:
What is, in fact , wrong with the drive and is there any way to retrive the portion that I care about?
I'll be thankful for any response.
A few days ago my Windows 10 PC suddenly became incredibly slow, so much that in a matter of minutes I was unable to open File explorer. While frustratingly waiting for anything to happen, I was greeted with the beauty and joy of BSOD, reading:
DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
Having known nothing about the error, immediate googling was required, witch, lasting almost two days now, has led me to a dead end. In the process of mending it, I first decided to try and reinstall Windows, but with no luck, as it froze every time on Windows' "Install Now" screen. After, an effort to open cmd.exe in Windows recovery did succeed, however, typing DISKPART would freeze the Command Prompt, and would not respond to any key. My intention was to try and format the C: partition and install Windows normally, hoping that it would fix whatever witchcraft was going on before. Still mindlessly searching the web, a day later, I managed to get Diskpart to work, using:
chkdsk c: /f /r /x
;With the result:
Also, I tried using Linux Mint's terminal to pull information, and ti reported that the drive was write-protected and read only. Gparted could not even start, it just kept scanning endlessly, and Gparted live crashed.
After witch I concluded that the HDD is toast, witch was reinforced by the fact that two other machines would not boot when the HDD in question was connected. The drive dosen't make any unusual mechanical noises.
My question is, since I am willing to give up all data but around 20GB of .wav files - my personal work:
What is, in fact , wrong with the drive and is there any way to retrive the portion that I care about?
I'll be thankful for any response.
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