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Answer» Hi. Trying to fix a friends computer that seems to have a problem with the hard drive. Basicly it freezes soon after boot and on re-boot no hard drive is detected in the bios. The strange thing is if I PUT the hard drive in a USB caddy I can access all the files, and I have managed to BACK up over 50 gig WITHOUT the drive failing. My question is does this seem normal for a failing hard drive or are there other possibilities? Thanks. SATA--Ide ? truenorthHi. It’s a sata, am I right in thinking hard drives either work or they dont? Quote from: aussie11 on February 22, 2011, 12:58:23 AM Hi. It’s a sata, am I right in thinking hard drives either work or they dont? In most cases YES, however it sounds more like a malware issue to me. Especially if the drive works fine in a caddy.The Machines Power Supply is probably failing, or overloaded. I’m thinking along the same lines as BC the power supply, the machine seems O.K for about 5 minutes then freezes if I restart it no hard drive detected in bios, if I leave it to cool down for 20 minutes it works again untill it freezes. I ran the bios diagnostics and it cam back with H/drive problem but it works fine in my USB caddy, whilst in the caddy I ran check disk on the c drive and the factory reset partition and it reported and fixed a problem on c. My next step was to try a factory restore it formatted and reinstalled to 30% then froze, so I think a new power supply is the FIRST thing to try. Thanks for the input guy’s. Quote from: Kurtiskain on February 22, 2011, 02:22:19 AM In most cases yes, however it sounds more like a malware issue to me. Especially if the drive works fine in a caddy. None of those circumstances point to an infection...i don't follow your logic.

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Hi.
Trying to fix a friends computer that seems to have a problem with the hard drive.
Basicly it freezes soon after boot and on re-boot no hard drive is detected in the bios.

The strange thing is if I PUT the hard drive in a USB caddy I can access all the files, and I have managed to BACK up over 50 gig WITHOUT the drive failing.
My question is does this seem normal for a failing hard drive or are there other possibilities?

Thanks.
SATA--Ide ? truenorthHi.
It’s a sata, am I right in thinking hard drives either work or they dont?
Quote from: aussie11 on February 22, 2011, 12:58:23 AM

Hi.
It’s a sata, am I right in thinking hard drives either work or they dont?

In most cases YES, however it sounds more like a malware issue to me. Especially if the drive works fine in a caddy.The Machines Power Supply is probably failing, or overloaded.

I’m thinking along the same lines as BC the power supply, the machine seems O.K for about 5 minutes then freezes if I restart it no hard drive detected in bios, if I leave it to cool down for 20 minutes it works again untill it freezes.
I ran the bios diagnostics and it cam back with H/drive problem but it works fine in my USB caddy, whilst in the caddy I ran check disk on the c drive and the factory reset partition and it reported and fixed a problem on c.
My next step was to try a factory restore it formatted and reinstalled to 30% then froze, so I think a new power supply is the FIRST thing to try.
Thanks for the input guy’s.
Quote from: Kurtiskain on February 22, 2011, 02:22:19 AM

In most cases yes, however it sounds more like a malware issue to me. Especially if the drive works fine in a caddy.

None of those circumstances point to an infection...i don't follow your logic.

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