Hey guys, I came across a very serious problem. Here are my computer specs:
i5 2500k
ASRock Z77 Pro4-m
Corsair CX600
MSI 560 Ti OC (major problems with this card, so I am switching back out to my old 4850)
2x4gb ddr3
120 gb Agility 3 SSD
2TB Seagate "green"
First, I'd like to say that the cause of all my problems started when I upgraded to a new computer. I've been having huge problems with my video card that I am deciding to rma. So to keep a long story short, my video card occasionally causes my computer to crash. One time after a crash, one of the partitions on my 2TB hdd started not working. I thought it was weird because only one of the two partitions wasn't being read by Windows. Anyway, at startup, Windows asked me to run "checkdisk" or something along those lines for one of my hard drives, so I did that and fixed the hard drive problem.
A few hours ago, my computer crashed again due to my video card.. which now has prompted me to finally give up on trying to fix it (which I've been doing the past 3 weeks). When I tried restarting my computer, Windows would hang and freeze during the initial loading stage. I was even close to doing a reformat because I thought my ssd somehow got messed up from the crash. But Windows wouldn't even load the install dvd. So I randomly decide to unplug the 2tb hdd and restarted my computer and Windows was finally able to load. I tried reconnecting the hdd and restarting, but again Windows wouldn't load. I'm assuming whatever happened the first time that prompted Windows to have me run "checkdisk" happened again.. but this time I can't get the checkdisk thing to load up...
My question is, how can I save my hard drive? I don't know how I can possibly access it since Windows won't load when I have it connected. I don't have an external hard drive.. but I suppose I can borrow one if need be.
Note: I made sure in the BIOS to boot windows from my SSD and even disabled booting from the HDD.
[Edit] I put the hdd in my old computer and somehow was able to run checkdisk through there. The hdd works now on my new computer. I will continue monitoring my hdd to see if it is faulty or if this was all caused by my video card.
i5 2500k
ASRock Z77 Pro4-m
Corsair CX600
MSI 560 Ti OC (major problems with this card, so I am switching back out to my old 4850)
2x4gb ddr3
120 gb Agility 3 SSD
2TB Seagate "green"
First, I'd like to say that the cause of all my problems started when I upgraded to a new computer. I've been having huge problems with my video card that I am deciding to rma. So to keep a long story short, my video card occasionally causes my computer to crash. One time after a crash, one of the partitions on my 2TB hdd started not working. I thought it was weird because only one of the two partitions wasn't being read by Windows. Anyway, at startup, Windows asked me to run "checkdisk" or something along those lines for one of my hard drives, so I did that and fixed the hard drive problem.
A few hours ago, my computer crashed again due to my video card.. which now has prompted me to finally give up on trying to fix it (which I've been doing the past 3 weeks). When I tried restarting my computer, Windows would hang and freeze during the initial loading stage. I was even close to doing a reformat because I thought my ssd somehow got messed up from the crash. But Windows wouldn't even load the install dvd. So I randomly decide to unplug the 2tb hdd and restarted my computer and Windows was finally able to load. I tried reconnecting the hdd and restarting, but again Windows wouldn't load. I'm assuming whatever happened the first time that prompted Windows to have me run "checkdisk" happened again.. but this time I can't get the checkdisk thing to load up...
My question is, how can I save my hard drive? I don't know how I can possibly access it since Windows won't load when I have it connected. I don't have an external hard drive.. but I suppose I can borrow one if need be.
Note: I made sure in the BIOS to boot windows from my SSD and even disabled booting from the HDD.
[Edit] I put the hdd in my old computer and somehow was able to run checkdisk through there. The hdd works now on my new computer. I will continue monitoring my hdd to see if it is faulty or if this was all caused by my video card.