- Nov 17, 2004
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Hi all
I did some work recently on a friend's computer. When he brought it over, it wasn't booting and this is because the HD was blank! So I reinstalled XP, updated a zillion things including the BIOS - in short I brought the computer back to him when I was satisfied that it was uber-updated (4+ hours of work).
However, 1 short week later and I have it back. He was installing some apps that he uses, mainly Katia (sp) which is a 3D app he uses for work. But when he tried to reboot, everything was gone. Back to square one. I do not believe this is due to the installation - I am convinced it is a hardware issue and am leaning towards the hard drive.
When hard drives start to go bad, can they randomly lose all data? I can't understand why else his system would be acting this way. The system is an HP 7920, which is a 900mhz Celeron, 2x128mb pc133 SDRAM, onboard sound/video. If the HD is toast, I am going to recommend he get something new. No use farting around on an old peice of crap with onboard video if you plan on doing intensive 3D work, right?
Any help / comments are greatly appreciated.
I did some work recently on a friend's computer. When he brought it over, it wasn't booting and this is because the HD was blank! So I reinstalled XP, updated a zillion things including the BIOS - in short I brought the computer back to him when I was satisfied that it was uber-updated (4+ hours of work).
However, 1 short week later and I have it back. He was installing some apps that he uses, mainly Katia (sp) which is a 3D app he uses for work. But when he tried to reboot, everything was gone. Back to square one. I do not believe this is due to the installation - I am convinced it is a hardware issue and am leaning towards the hard drive.
When hard drives start to go bad, can they randomly lose all data? I can't understand why else his system would be acting this way. The system is an HP 7920, which is a 900mhz Celeron, 2x128mb pc133 SDRAM, onboard sound/video. If the HD is toast, I am going to recommend he get something new. No use farting around on an old peice of crap with onboard video if you plan on doing intensive 3D work, right?
Any help / comments are greatly appreciated.
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