- May 1, 2017
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So my pc was set up under a desk which i put my keyboard, mouse and monitor on. one day, by mistake the pc fell on its side, however not hard as i have a carpet floor instead of tiles or other hard materials.
Then the problem started, my screen all of a sudden froze and simply wont respond, such as clicking the start button will open the menu but it won't respond again afterward (thus its pretty much will stay open without me being able to click it). when i tried to reboot it up after tightening all kind of cables which might have gone loose, i boot it up and it worked, however far slower than the normal speed my pc usually boot, black screen before showing the log in screen (the cursor does work). and then the freezing screen happened again. next when i rebooted it, i can hear the sound of a disk spinning, and stopping, spinning again, and stopping again like its trying to load the data but failed. meanwhile on the screen the pc simply state "A disk read error has occurred, ctrl+alt+del to restart". so i conclude this might be a faulty hard drive thus i decided to take the hard drive off.
I cleaned it from dust and attempted to shake it as gently as possible, so maybe i can hear if there is any part that's damaged (not sure if this is the way tho). then i put it on a flat surface, connected the cable, and rebooted my pc. the pc boot up nicely, like how it normally does, the failing disk sound i described before has disappeared , in fact the drive made nearly no noise at all, so i suppose the problem was solved.
however i am worried even though it worked (right now i'm typing this from my pc and still the problem did not return) it might simply be a momentary fix because of me gently shaking it. so my question:
should i keep using it? so far there's absolutely no problem and it make no weird noises
will using it damaged it even further and thus i can't recover the data? should i buy a new one and transfer the data in the disk?
how do i transfer the data in the disk? (which included the OS).
Thanks
Then the problem started, my screen all of a sudden froze and simply wont respond, such as clicking the start button will open the menu but it won't respond again afterward (thus its pretty much will stay open without me being able to click it). when i tried to reboot it up after tightening all kind of cables which might have gone loose, i boot it up and it worked, however far slower than the normal speed my pc usually boot, black screen before showing the log in screen (the cursor does work). and then the freezing screen happened again. next when i rebooted it, i can hear the sound of a disk spinning, and stopping, spinning again, and stopping again like its trying to load the data but failed. meanwhile on the screen the pc simply state "A disk read error has occurred, ctrl+alt+del to restart". so i conclude this might be a faulty hard drive thus i decided to take the hard drive off.
I cleaned it from dust and attempted to shake it as gently as possible, so maybe i can hear if there is any part that's damaged (not sure if this is the way tho). then i put it on a flat surface, connected the cable, and rebooted my pc. the pc boot up nicely, like how it normally does, the failing disk sound i described before has disappeared , in fact the drive made nearly no noise at all, so i suppose the problem was solved.
however i am worried even though it worked (right now i'm typing this from my pc and still the problem did not return) it might simply be a momentary fix because of me gently shaking it. so my question:
should i keep using it? so far there's absolutely no problem and it make no weird noises
will using it damaged it even further and thus i can't recover the data? should i buy a new one and transfer the data in the disk?
how do i transfer the data in the disk? (which included the OS).
Thanks
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