Hello, I have a 1.9 athlon pc. it has two harddrives in it, C drive has windows which is a 4 year old 30gig harddrive, then i have a d drive which is about 2 years old and thats an 100 harddrive.
My problem is. The computer usually starts with no problem. Its constantly locking up for no reason, especially when i go into windows explorer or any program viewing files.
Its never acted up like this before, I dont dl files so it shouldn't be a virus. Also i ran the virus scan a day before all this and no virus.
When the pc starts sometimes it locks up like 5 times on loading and the rest it says my harddrives (both of them) are not detected.
Sometimes the C drive (30gig) is detected but then the D drive isn't at all.
So i figured well its possible the d drive (100 gig) is going up. but i found when i finally get into windows after about 15 attempts, I try to run norton system works on it or other programs to test the C Drive and it locks up and i hear the HD clicking, physically clicking then it locks up.
It does that too when it locks up. I hear a clicking noise, maybe its skipping tracks or sectors or something. But when i do the system scan with nortan i get that noise then i get an ERROR that wont go away, if you click ok it just keeps c oming back till the pc locks up. The error says "UNKNOWN HARD ERROR"
I'm using Win2000 and i tried to boot a floppy disk to fisk the MBR thinking maybe that was damaged but it wont let me. Gives me errors. I forgot which one but its something like Harddrive not present.
I also twice got a blue screen when restarting saying windows NEW hardware has a problem. Please reinstall the hardware if any added to prevent this problem. But i haven't added anything to my computer in a few months.
I dunno what the hell to do. I'm not sure whats wrong.... HD? Windows? MBR? or motherboard? is it possible the harddrive was just overheating?
Please help,
Thanx,
Dave
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My problem is. The computer usually starts with no problem. Its constantly locking up for no reason, especially when i go into windows explorer or any program viewing files.
Its never acted up like this before, I dont dl files so it shouldn't be a virus. Also i ran the virus scan a day before all this and no virus.
When the pc starts sometimes it locks up like 5 times on loading and the rest it says my harddrives (both of them) are not detected.
Sometimes the C drive (30gig) is detected but then the D drive isn't at all.
So i figured well its possible the d drive (100 gig) is going up. but i found when i finally get into windows after about 15 attempts, I try to run norton system works on it or other programs to test the C Drive and it locks up and i hear the HD clicking, physically clicking then it locks up.
It does that too when it locks up. I hear a clicking noise, maybe its skipping tracks or sectors or something. But when i do the system scan with nortan i get that noise then i get an ERROR that wont go away, if you click ok it just keeps c oming back till the pc locks up. The error says "UNKNOWN HARD ERROR"
I'm using Win2000 and i tried to boot a floppy disk to fisk the MBR thinking maybe that was damaged but it wont let me. Gives me errors. I forgot which one but its something like Harddrive not present.
I also twice got a blue screen when restarting saying windows NEW hardware has a problem. Please reinstall the hardware if any added to prevent this problem. But i haven't added anything to my computer in a few months.
I dunno what the hell to do. I'm not sure whats wrong.... HD? Windows? MBR? or motherboard? is it possible the harddrive was just overheating?
Please help,
Thanx,
Dave
The HIGHLY TECHNICAL forum is not for troubleshooting.
AnandTech Moderator
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