Hdd Question.

Alkers

After coming home tonight after leaving the pc on for about 8hours to a blank screen. The screen wouldn't "come to life" after moving the mouse so I restarted. I was given a "no boot device" error message and told to insert a cd. I restarted again to the same thing. I then powered off and back up again and the pc started fine The Hdd seems a bit slower than normal too. Any idea what could have caused this and apart form back-up is there anything I should do?

EL_Loco

take any files you want to keep and burn them to CD/DVD asap. I mean, right now.

I had some errors like that and I could tell the hard drive was on the way out, but I risked it once too many times and the thing gave up on me completely.

so just cover yourself in case of a total melt down of your Hard drive.

after that maybe check the connections to the hard drive, data and power. is it making more noise than usual? how old is it?

maybe run the error checking tool and see if the HD has bad sectors on it.

after the back up of your files reboot and see if your BIOS is picking up the hard drive correctly. it may be a BIOS problem too, if it's not seeing your hard drive and doesn't boot from it.

the fact you restarted and didn't power down may have something to do with it also, maybe your HD idled after being on so long and it needed the power down to start it up properly again. I had a video card like that which wouldn't initialise properly on resets, only by powering off and on would it initialise correctly. barring all that, maybe you could talk nice to it once in a while, hard drives have feelings too ya know!

Alkers

The drive is only about a month old. The BIOS see's the drive and it is booting perfetly now...

CuLT

Loose IDE cables?