hard disk problems after overclocking

[xtknight]

well...looks like I o/c'd a bit too much...it killed my windows installation and caused hard disk damage, i think...

so right now i'm in the windows recovery console doing chkdsk c: /p /r. just a regular chkdsk command didn't fix enough for Windows to scan through looking for installations with the bootcfg command. it complained the hard disk was too corrupted and needed running chkdsk, which i just did. now i'm in the process of the chkdsk /p /r which should fix more.

i'm sure you guys have damaged your windows and/or hard disk at least once overclocking. what did you do to fix it?

thanks

P.S. were you able to save your Windows and/or files?

 

[theMan]

thats what did it for me. if that works, i would recommend running memtest to make sure your memory is ok. memory errors can cause corruption. if that doesnt work, stick the drive in another computer and see if you can get all the stuff off of it. checkdisk worked perfectly for me. what it did was just deleted all the systemfiles because they were so corrupted. then i had to reinstall.

good luck.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: theman
thats what did it for me. if that works, i would recommend running memtest to make sure your memory is ok. memory errors can cause corruption. if that doesnt work, stick the drive in another computer and see if you can get all the stuff off of it. checkdisk worked perfectly for me. what it did was just deleted all the systemfiles because they were so corrupted. then i had to reinstall.

good luck.

the good news is, a dir command revealed all the directories on my hard disk.

sounds good...before this I was trying the winxp repair, then it checked the hard disk, and froze at 25%...i got damn worried at that point...maybe it was just going slow. i rebooted it because i thought it was frozen, then went to the recovery console and now in process of chkdsk. i know the chkdsk /p /r command is uber slow but its gaining percentage at least every 10 minutes...

earlier this morning I had to deal with nForce4 hard disk detection issues. i don't think that's related. at least i hope not. other people had the same problem around here with this board.

seems like my Intel Pentium 4 PC (which I'm on now) has caused me SO much less trouble and I've had lots better success O/Cing it...I got 3.4GHz at one point! granted it did have this same windows BSOD->suicide problem...but the hard disk didn't get all screwed up. a simple reinstall fixed it on this intel pc.

it's good this p4 pc is good enough for some wolfenstein'ing.

hope i don't need the luck...
thanks

 

[uOpt]

Your harddrive contents have been corrupted by memory corruption. Even those files which are still there are possibly to likely internally corrupted.

Now would be a good time to restore a backup.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: MartinCracauer
Your harddrive contents have been corrupted by memory corruption. Even those files which are still there are possibly to likely internally corrupted.

Now would be a good time to restore a backup.

i don't know...we'll see...had this problem on my old pc, and a simple reinstall was fine. nothing mission-critical on that hard disk anyway, so i dont really care. mostly huge game downloads is about it...i'm not old enough to have anything important on it.

should i run a chkdsk cluster-by-cluster check next, where it scans the whole hard disk and takes a few hours? or is that only for physical damage?

 

[xtknight]

ok...here comes the good news. i just reinstalled windows and none of my files are gone from what i can tell! i also figured out how to make it use nvidia display drivers without rebooting (just change your res)...i might even be able to play bf2 without even rebooting windows from its first time load, lol. (typing from my was-troubled new PC now.)