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I'm almost certain it's that. So I was playing Forza Horizon 3 and decided to head into the garage to switch cars. The screen went black, nothing but the sound worked and I decided to restart the pc (from the button). It didn't want to boot, told me to insert the proper boot device or something, I checked the boot order, tried again and did that again. After a couple more resets, it started making a continuous beep sound while trying to boot. Judging by the inability to boot and comparing my problem to other similar posts it seems it's about to give up and if it's not dead yet, how can I back up my data since I can't boot the pc?The HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 1TB, it's pretty old. Thanks in advance.
 
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Buy a new HDD, buy an external USB3 HDD enclosure, put your old HDD in it, install the new HDD in your PC, re-install Windows on it, plug in your old HDD, pray that it works, backup your files starting with your most important stuff since there is no telling how much longer the failing drive will last.
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Buy a new HDD, buy an external USB3 HDD enclosure, put your old HDD in it, install the new HDD in your PC, re-install Windows on it, plug in your old HDD, pray that it works, backup your files starting with your most important stuff since there is no telling how much longer the failing drive will last.
 
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Better yet.

Buy 2 hard drives and put them in a raid 1.

Your read speed will be twice that if a single drive, faster game loads.

Your write speed is obviously the same as one drive.

This lets you keep playing if one drive fails.
(Promptly replace failed drives and let it rebuild)


Do backup your files if needed like the above post mentioned.

But if it's a pure gaming pc with nothing else on it, just re-download the games from steam / battle.net / origin.
 
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Ok yeah I'm sorry for stirring this up, I got so worked up on the idea of having to back up everything and all that I forgot about this... Since I'm using a Dualshock 4 controller for some games and due to the Dualshock not being supported by microsoft I have to install 3rd party software in order for it to be recognized like a Xbox one. And every time my pc gets reset or shut down with the controller still connected, it prevents me from booting my Windows.
Just as I was checking the exact model of the HDD I remembered about this problem and disconnected the controller, turned the PC on and I started from where I left off.
Still, the beeping sound got me worried, could it really be a failing disk? And it hasn't beeped after the "fix".
 
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Depending on the size of the drive needed it may be time to transition to solid state.

Solid state is much more reliable than hard drives and also much faster.

I manage about 500 computers at work and about 3 years ago we started buying solid state drives in our Dell computers.

All of the solid states are still going fine, never had to replace one yet.

We have 1-2 spinning hard drives of the other models fail about once a month.

I currently use a 1 terabyte ssd, old 840 EVO, as my boot drive and for games.
 
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I had the exact same problem about 4 years ago with a Logitech g15 keyboard and an old Dell XPS.

The system refused to boot with the keyboard plugged in.
(At least till I updated the bios)

Solid state drives are still really nice for your next build.
 
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