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Crashed hard drive

by Apr 23, 2018 2:44AM PDT

Hi, just came home and my hdd can't boot up, its spinning up normally, but it does some weird click sounds, like if read head can't get into the position or something and this is showing up, on the boot screen https://photos.app.goo.gl/1xhWp9N5iveSEsQ82

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Re: crashed hard drive
by Forum moderator Apr 23, 2018 2:53AM PDT

That's a very strange message, indeed.

What happens if you disconnect the hard drive and reboot?
- If you see the expected message, something like "Can't find boot device" or "Insert boot device" replace the hard disk (and reinstall Windows or restore your latest image.
- if you see the same strange thing, replace your motherboard and/or CPU. If not exactly the same type of motherboard, you'll have to reinstall Windows.

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Crashed hdd
by Sigy83 Apr 23, 2018 2:10PM PDT

That hdd is not even showing in the bios anymore, but I can see my second hdd, I can even run Live Ubuntu, but just what makes me wonder, that it crashed all that sudden, don't even mention replacing motherboard or Cpu, I have I7 4790k, that's still a lot of money Grin trying to reinstall windows on the second hdd now, when I unplugged both, normal message like insert a boot media showed up, any clue anyway? Cheers guys

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Hard drives fail
by Bob__B Apr 23, 2018 5:38PM PDT

Some slowly.....some sudden.

That's why you never run one of these machines without a full system backup and the install media.

If up time is important to you keep a spare hdd on the shelf.

It can be painful to lose everything and have to rebuild from bare metal.

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seems perhaps the logic board on the HDD failed.
by Apr 23, 2018 12:14PM PDT

See if you can boot to anything else, open a file manager, and access the drive that way.

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