guys i need your help my computer basically blew up and it was the hard drive. so my dad got a new hard drive and we put it in last night and it gets to the sign on screen and them basically goes blank we got all the windows crap downloaded but it just wont work. i keep on telling him he has to take out the old hard drive the one that blew up and he wont listen can some of you guys tell me if im telling my dad the truth or what. but if your wondering how im typing this is cause im using my dads work laptop. but the strange thing is hes fixed all the other computers my family has ownedbut it jsut seems like this one is really blown up. please help a bro out thanks.
If it is a hard drive issue, replace the corrupted hard drive with the new hard drive. Re-install windows and all your other software. If it is just a windows or software issue, then format the old hard drive and re-install everything. With windows, its not a bad practice to re-format every once in a while anyway, as you tend to get spyware, and other kinds of crap installed on your computer that slows things down.
yeah we have the whole new hard drive in and we got windows media player xp and all the other windows crap on the new hard drive but after that the hard drive wont go to the sign on screen whitch is strange but hopefully my dad is gonna figure it out. the only thing that sucks is i have like $1000 worth of music on the blown up drive luckily we backed it up but when it blew i bought more music while looking at the surf cams so i basically lost like $20 worth of music. But my dad is gonna get our bestfriend who works at international paper on there computer system to come to our house and try to fix it. i just want it to be fixed asap cause my dads boss is getting kind of mad for us using it when its only trully for his office.
did you remove the old harddrive or just piggyback the new on off it? what did the computer do when it "blew up"? are you positive it was the harddrive that needed to be replaced?
na he didnt remove the old harddrive hes trying to recover the old stuff of it. but should he take it out. and yes im positive its the hardrive. and finally it just shutdown and when i tried to start it back up it went to a black screen witha countdown timer from 30 seconds and froze so we jsut shut it off and got a harddrive from my dads bussiness computer dept. and that worked so we bought a new harddrive for it.
you might have to set your new harddrive to "primary" and th eold one to "slave" theres a jumper setting on the hardrive, kind of like a little black plug covering some pins sticking out. it should tell you which set of pins to move it to.
I would remove the old hard drive, load the OS and all the other software including virus and malware scanner one the new hard drive. Get the machine running and then add the old hard drive back in as the "slave" on the cd rom cable. It will make the transfer faster (if you can receover anything). Also, if your still having issues getting the new hard drive to boot, you most likley have jumper issues as noted in a post above. THe jumper setting are usually listed on the outside of the hard drive itself. good luck
You think you are losing music!!!! I just had the worst day in PC history last week. My domain server controller failed rendering 500GB of music inaccessible and to add insult to injury, my WD Mybook 1 TB died. It had near 700GB of music and about 200GB of HD boogie footage. WB replaced the 1TB drive but no way for me to get what I lost off it. Unreal that I lost both my main and backup source in the same day, same hours even!
this stuff blows the same stuff happened to me. it kept sayin the hard drive was full, but it was completely empty cuz my dad bought a 500GB hard drive and moved EVERYTHING onto that. then the virus blockers ran out of time and my computer got LOADED up on porn viruses from limewire and my dad got rid of all that sh*t. but it still wouldnt work so he just ended up buying a new PC
for anyone whos computer is running slugish on windows, then before buying a new computer, you may want to try reformating the hard drive and starting from scratch. This generally makes a big difference.
Also there are free online scans for viruses, adware, spyware and other things that cause Windows to run slow.
chris, have you tried 'get data back.' it's a software program that is pretty good at recovering files off of a busted hard drive. I had a similar experience happen on my school laptop and i managed to save quite a few files. It wasn't everything but better than nothing.
Yeah, I am an IT expert for the most part. The issue is the drive is external and my system will not read it through eSATA, Firewire or USB 2.0. I am pretty much screwed and forced to send it back to WD. At least they replaced it for free. No matter what I plug it into as far as all my PCs and Laptops, it says the drive needs formatted and only has 512KB of space. The drive is 1 TB. The reformat fails and I used all the WD tools and it fails everything possible when it comes to recovery options. I just hope they cannot recover it or never try to. Lucky for me I had all my HD footage still on tapes so I recovered all that.
WBSURF - someone said it already, but you are going to have to slave the old hard drive. You will not be able to boot if both hard drives on the IDE cable have the jumper set to master, or primary. Once you set the master/slave relationship appropriately, the old HD will come up as another drive, possibly drive "D: or E:" depending on your setup, and you can access everything on it and pull stuff off. If that doesn't work, you can purchase a hot-drive, which is basically connects the hard drive to a USB port via a cable. Think of it working like a big jump(thumb)-drive. If these don't work, than you're HD may be beyond repair. If it's a physical hardware issue, you may be SOL. Good luck.
thats kind of what were worried about is being sol since the computer is only like 2-3 years old and we trully dont want to buy a new one with the economy but my dad id gonna get his friend thast does the computer systme at international paper to looka t it for us. we just dont want to buy a new one since in like 3 years ill be going off to college and getting a laptop. but thanks everyone for your help.
I'm a little confused. The computer itself should be fine, right? Aren't you saying that the hard drive is what died? Try removing the old HD from the system and try to boot it up using only the new hard drive attached. (I'm going on the assumption that you installed an operating system on the new hard drive). I'm not sure why you would buy a new computer if your problem is the hard drive.
yeah i know that but what my parents are hoping are that the new hd will do were hoping that when the old hd got fried it didnt fry anything else.
