Dead HDD.

[dennilfloss]

No smart warnings from ActiveSmart. I was playing Oblivion then suddenly got my first BSOD in Windows XP since it got installed in 2003. System rebooted, performed a check disk, gave me an out of range error on my display. I rebooted again and the error went away. All seemed fine except that one of my hard disks (the one that hosted my Oblivion game, among other things) was no longer present in Explorer or Disk Management.

I rebooted again and even the bios no longer sees it. Checked all the cables, fine. Moved it to another SATA plug. Still not seen. Tried the freezer trick, no go. This 500 GB Seagate Barracuda is only a few months old and my first SATA HDD. Thank goodness, my primary HDD (IDE, a 300GB Seagate) is still there.

Gonna phone my reseller so he can check it in another computer. Hopefully it's still on warranty.

Balls!!!:frown:

 

[dennilfloss]

Gonna try again the HDD tonight, changing the power and SATA cables in case it's a bad cable. Gonna make sure also no cable is loose on the power supply end of things. . The Bios does see my two SATA burners so I don't think it's the SATA controller that croaked.

Otherwise, my reseller says it was bought in July and is still under warranty.

 

[awal]

 

[dennilfloss]

Well, I tried a new SATA power cable directly to the power supply (different PSU socket too) + a new SATA data cable and it still does not show in BIOS. Looks like it's a goner. Will get it replaced after the holidays then.