It appears my return to PF was short lived. You won't see me around for the next little while... Some of you guys may remember that my computer would occasionally crash while playing CSS. I had said that it was annoying, but I was too lazy to troubleshoot the problem and would get around to it later. Apparently, I waited too long, and now have all the time in the world to troubleshoot it. My computer died (again). All symptoms are point to a hard drive failure. I will troubleshoot the problem tomorrow, but fully expect to have to buy a new hard drive and reinstall everything... ...I will keep you posted.
want to attempt to retrive ur data (if u had anything good on there) 1) get 3 sandwich bags and seal them (make sure u get the air out) 2) put it in the freezer for 24hours 3) as fast as u can take it out and plug it into your computer 3/5) get another hard drive to back up ur precious data 4) you have 30minutes. Or if u cant get it to work and your computer supports SATA2 http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku...mp;promoid=1055 500GB Seagate HD ^.^ exact one that i got and im lovin it.
Ive had 5 WD hd's die on me jsut after the warrenty is ended....... atleast with seagate ill get 5 years out of it
There's no worries about lost data: I have an external HD hooked up to my computer which I periodically use to back-up my data (I haven't done a ful backup in about 3 months, but there isn't anything critical that I will miss over the past 3 months, so no big deal). I've had the external HD for longer than I've had this computer --did I mention that the external HD was made by Seagate? Hmmm... Let's just say that as far as I'm concerned, Seagate has a much better track record of product life spans than WD. Thanks for the link, Kyle... I just may have one of those hard drives in the near future...
Well, I opened up my computer and checked the SATA and power cables to both my hard drives. One of the power cables was *slightly* loose, and now my computer boots up with no errors. I ran a diagnostics program on my hard drives and both check out as operational. I also was able to fully back-up all my data (in case the hard drive is still about to crash). I'm not done troubleshooting the problem, and harbour no illusions that the problem was completely fixed by tightening the power cord... but I certainly feel a lot better about my situation.