Instructions: How to fry a 40 gig Harddrive

Well, not just a 40 gig, thats just my experience

Published on February 27, 2004 By TARSIER In Personal Computing

OK, it is around ten oclock, i was sitting at home playing Counter Strike when it happened. In desperation, I stomp my foot on the ground, and it miraculously hits my surge protector's switch, turning off the power. So Im not too happy, but im not too mad either. So, I turn it back on, turn on my comp, and BAM!, "Read disk error". So i flip out my XP disk, try to boot from cd, says checking system hardware blah, and then goes to a black screen and freezes. So I then make a boot disk. After running the boot disk, It says that there are no FAT32 or FAT partitions found, so I am like, RRRRRRRRRRRRRR really mad. I then have my friend check and see if a virus attacked it or if he could wipe it and install XP on it. It fails miserably. Anyone wanna sell me a hdd cheap, lol? Also, if you are good with computers, tell me how that happened please, because it doesn't seem logical to me.

THanx,
Jay

Comments

on Feb 29, 2004

Looks like it had a head impact when it was reading and writing and it got powered down.

Usually it means it's goner.

Of course, you could run recovery console and run fixmbr but it's kind of advanced, and you have to have a administrator access.

Dan Kaschel

on Feb 29, 2004

XX is right. And if it had a head impact, you're not going to have a 40 gig hard drive anymore if you do get it working again.

~Dan

TARSIER

on Feb 29, 2004

How do I run fixmbr?

on Mar 01, 2004

Hmm I think when you boot by windows xp cd, you can press r for recovery console, just type fixmbr after logging in administrator account. If you can't go that far, then the harddrive is definely fried.

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