1st off thanks for any help in advance.
I built this computer at the very 1st of the year. Everything went smoothly, until about one month ago after doing a clean install of xp and after i had used an external hard drive to copy lots of school work and large files back onto my Seagate 500gb harddrive (i only have 1 internal). I installed drivers and restarted the machine to find some of the files i recently copied over to be gone. I restarted again and found that more files were now missing from my computer, luckily, i had backups of the most important files (school documents). After doing reaserch i found i might have overheated my internal drive and caused memory corruption. Also, i thought it might have been the case of my scrathed XP disc causing a windows corruption. Anyways, i borrowed a new windows disc from a friend and got windows running smoothly. 2 days ago, I was playing portal when the game froze, alt + tab, ctrl alt delete, nothing working (not sure if this is important). I restarted my computer and that fixed the problem, so i turned it off. Later that day i went to turn it back on only to recive a message "Please insert correct boot media". And i haven't found a way past that screen. My motherboard will no longer even recognize the drive (it only shows my dvd drive). I tried switching the power and sata cables between the two drives and no change. I also tried unplugging all unnecessary devices (usb, the dvd drive, case fans) to check if it was a power failure but no change. I think im going to have to rma the drive but i don't want to get another faulty product. If there is no solution can someone sugest a recovery option because i had a summer report due in 5 days that i didn't have backedup (its 5 pages long) and some other very important work i need. Im getting really desperate and im about to send Segate an angry email. Anyhelp would be extreemely appreciated.
I built this computer at the very 1st of the year. Everything went smoothly, until about one month ago after doing a clean install of xp and after i had used an external hard drive to copy lots of school work and large files back onto my Seagate 500gb harddrive (i only have 1 internal). I installed drivers and restarted the machine to find some of the files i recently copied over to be gone. I restarted again and found that more files were now missing from my computer, luckily, i had backups of the most important files (school documents). After doing reaserch i found i might have overheated my internal drive and caused memory corruption. Also, i thought it might have been the case of my scrathed XP disc causing a windows corruption. Anyways, i borrowed a new windows disc from a friend and got windows running smoothly. 2 days ago, I was playing portal when the game froze, alt + tab, ctrl alt delete, nothing working (not sure if this is important). I restarted my computer and that fixed the problem, so i turned it off. Later that day i went to turn it back on only to recive a message "Please insert correct boot media". And i haven't found a way past that screen. My motherboard will no longer even recognize the drive (it only shows my dvd drive). I tried switching the power and sata cables between the two drives and no change. I also tried unplugging all unnecessary devices (usb, the dvd drive, case fans) to check if it was a power failure but no change. I think im going to have to rma the drive but i don't want to get another faulty product. If there is no solution can someone sugest a recovery option because i had a summer report due in 5 days that i didn't have backedup (its 5 pages long) and some other very important work i need. Im getting really desperate and im about to send Segate an angry email. Anyhelp would be extreemely appreciated.
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