hard disk failure?
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my friend got a strange hard disk failure...
what he did before the hard disk failure is that the hdd lack of space, he tried to transfer and delete some of the files.. while upon transferring, the whole screen freeze for very long.. so he decided to off it..
but to his horror, "hard disk boot failure" appeared infront of him. MS ask him to replace hard disk or to insert a bootable img disk inside. strangely, he off it and on it again, he can go in MS win xp. the MS ask him to scan for bad sector and he agreed. they replace bad files by some orther files.. and finally log into MS win
the start up sound is like shit(may beep sound in a second).. data was mixed badly. when he tried to view his previous video, it show squares... sometimes pause on its own, and the sound are jumbled all around.. for example.. the speech should be at the fifth second but insead played it on the 1st second.
when he look into his MS documents. the datas we mixed too.. where font are some big.. some bold, some small.
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any explanation to this cause? i dont need a remedy thx.
from what i assume is that MS go replace files and mix his data... -
Scan and fix hard disk errors doesn't replace any files on the PC.
I think the freezing during the transferring may have caused some files to be corrupted. What's more, he off the PC without proper shutdown procedure, further worsening the situation.
He can try the repair option in MS Office. -
Strange? Nope.
Common? Very.
Solution? Change ide/sata cable, use another pc to run hdd as slave. back up information, delete and repartition, format, ready to fry.
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i no need remedy thx. btw its a laptop with warrentyOriginally posted by Nelstar:Strange? Nope.
Common? Very.
Solution? Change ide/sata cable, use another pc to run hdd as slave. back up information, delete and repartition, format, ready to fry. -
Using microshucks offservice is as good as running a virus on his hdd.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Scan and fix hard disk errors doesn't replace any files on the PC.
I think the freezing during the transferring may have caused some files to be corrupted. What's more, he off the PC without proper shutdown procedure, further worsening the situation.
He can try the repair option in MS Office.
Freezing of transfer can be caused by a myriad of possibilities.
1. IDE/SATA cable faulty
2. IDE/SATA cable loose
3. Partition corrupted
4. MicroShucks Winblows corrupted
5. Motherboard's ide/sata connection faulty.
6. Faulty RAM.
7. Faulty processor..
the list goes on.
Microshucks Winblows simply try to scavenge the rotten information (which may be a minor problem) by taking whatever left and anyhow re-write when the thing wasn't functioning.
There goes all the information.. -
Guess what, you throw back to laptop manufacturer,Originally posted by manyu882:i no need remedy thx. btw its a laptop with warrenty
All they do is replace the harddisk.
You wont even get the information back.
Up to you. (Don't risk opening the notebook to retrieve information if you will die when u dont have warranty) -
not some...its all... if not why his start up sound data mix also?Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Scan and fix hard disk errors doesn't replace any files on the PC.
I think the freezing during the transferring may have caused some files to be corrupted. What's more, he off the PC without proper shutdown procedure, further worsening the situation.
He can try the repair option in MS Office. -
That's probably because of the ram or the read/write head of the hdd misplaced.Originally posted by manyu882:not some...its all... if not why his start up sound data mix also? -
all yea.. thx for this info.Originally posted by Nelstar:Using microshucks offservice is as good as running a virus on his hdd.
Freezing of transfer can be caused by a myriad of possibilities.
1. IDE/SATA cable faulty
2. IDE/SATA cable loose
3. Partition corrupted
4. MicroShucks Winblows corrupted
5. Motherboard's ide/sata connection faulty.
6. Faulty RAM.
7. Faulty processor..
the list goes on.
Microshucks Winblows simply try to scavenge the rotten information (which may be a minor problem) by taking whatever left and anyhow re-write when the thing wasn't functioning.
There goes all the information.. 
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Transfer whatever is important to a portable storage device, then check with manufacturer.Originally posted by manyu882:all yea.. thx for this info.
Most likely is corrupted winblows or partition.
And corruption can be caused by even more possibilities.
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i know what to tell him to do.Originally posted by Nelstar:Transfer whatever is important to a portable storage device, then check with manufacturer.
Most likely is corrupted winblows or partition.
And corruption can be caused by even more possibilities.
and fyi, his files all corrupted. in the sense that data mix. datacan open but the the video is jumbled, word documents can be open. but data bits are jumbled. so its futile to transfer all files.
he also added that he transferred his files to a portable hdd, and open in another computer, the files still view the same as his laptop does.
and also.. the hard disk failure only appeared once. and after that just a normal startup. -
As Nelstar has explained.Originally posted by manyu882:not some...its all... if not why his start up sound data mix also?
You won't know what Windows does when something freezes. -
lets change to linuxOriginally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:As Nelstar has explained.
You won't know what Windows does when something freezes. -
is it possible to replace the harddrive anyways?
seems faulty already, god knows it might happen again. -
Easy for a geek, hard for a noob.Originally posted by manyu882:lets change to linux -
Winblows have this extremely dumb storing data where it puts part of the data in X, part of the data in Y, part of data in Z and then point to the information.
When the system is unable to read the portion of the HDD where Y is, winblows will take its own dumb action to point only to X and Z together and thus render the file useless and senseless.
Thus, you get jumbled crap.
Especially when the system jumps into a restore mode. Do not allow Windows to repair the files. Windows is horrible when it comes to repairing files. It simply grab the information, change to pointers to it and cause even more problems.
In short. Never let windows repair a corrupted file or harddisk. It's equivalent to commiting information suicide. There is actually a way to undo the changes provided that u kept the log..... but you're never sure because Windows may re-write new information onto Y and thus make it impossible to recover.
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can replace.. by its manufacture so got warrenty ma.Originally posted by Ito_^:is it possible to replace the harddrive anyways?
seems faulty already, god knows it might happen again.
was suggesting this to him. since files corrupt liao, no use reformatting since there might be a small chance that what might happened again. so exchange with acer ba. -
nelstar, thx for telling me that microsoft did a great job. i suspected that.Originally posted by Nelstar:Winblows have this extremely dumb storing data where it puts part of the data in X, part of the data in Y, part of data in Z and then point to the information.
When the system is unable to read the portion of the HDD where Y is, winblows will take its own dumb action to point only to X and Z together and thus render the file useless and senseless.
Thus, you get jumbled crap.
Especially when the system jumps into a restore mode. Do not allow Windows to repair the files. Windows is horrible when it comes to repairing files. It simply grab the information, change to pointers to it and cause even more problems.
In short. Never let windows repair a corrupted file or harddisk. It's equivalent to commiting information suicide. There is actually a way to undo the changes provided that u kept the log..... but you're never sure because Windows may re-write new information onto Y and thus make it impossible to recover. -
Running linux is like saying,Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Easy for a geek, hard for a noob.
- linux is teh ub3r!!!!111111
and then when you run in linux problems and viruses....
Good luck -
then we just switch to MAC os XOriginally posted by Nelstar:Running linux is like saying,
- linux is teh ub3r!!!!111111
and then when you run in linux problems and viruses....
Good luck
edited: max ->MAC -
X2Originally posted by Nelstar:Running linux is like saying,
- linux is teh ub3r!!!!111111
and then when you run in linux problems and viruses....
Good luck