I keep blue screen'ing

[Whirled]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...140818163246:s

There could be cheaper elsewhere -^ this was the 1st one I clicked on but it'll let u know if HD is good or bad & copies 250GB in less than 45 mins. hth

[Rust1d?]

Did ya run memtest?

[Shannacore]

Originally Posted by Rust1d? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Did ya run memtest?

I didn't. I was going to proceed with the two recommendations listed earlier, but now it won't even boot up.

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

which OS are you running? vista, XP, or 7/8?

Windows 8.

8.1 to be ~exact~

[phacemeltar]

which OS are you running? vista, XP, or 7/8?

[Shannacore]

There was "no bootable drive detected" this morning, couldn't access anything. I'm not super positive what that means, but Sean says it's probably a hard drive problem.

It's going downhill quickly bros, I want the bluescreens back :c

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by Shannacore [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There was "no bootable drive detected" this morning

That's a bad thing.

[Derubael]

Originally Posted by Shannacore [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There was "no bootable drive detected" this morning, couldn't access anything. I'm not super positive what that means, but Sean says it's probably a hard drive problem.

It's going downhill quickly bros, I want the bluescreens back :c

This means you have a hard drive failure.

Pull it out, take it to your nearest staples or best buy and ask them to plug it in to their tester. It will let you know if its completely toast, or if you could do a wipe and get it working again.

Personally I've never seen that error pop up and have it not be a fried drive, so good luck.

[fishingme]

Before ripping the drive out, try replacing the saya cable and changing the sata port your drive is connected to.

[phacemeltar]

i had a similar issue, seems like it will be as simple as replacing your HDD but you may want to do some other things before you lose all your data.

Originally Posted by fishingme [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Before ripping the drive out, try replacing the sata cable and changing the sata port your drive is connected to.

i would try what fishingme said (unplug the HDD cable from the motherboard slot it is connected to and hook it into another similar slot) and also flip that CMOS toggle deal to reset the motherboard.
windows 8 u can boot from recovery CD, so i would check that out and see what it says your options are.

rarely harddrives just "die" and some can last for ridiculously long periods of time. ive noticed that windows 8 does ALOT of read/write to the drive, and i even had a HDD die on me once. my concern is that generally HDDs make some sort of death noise when they are walking towards the pearly gates.
in the past few weeks have you noticed any creaking, squeaking, or slicking noises coming from your PC? if so there is a good chance that your HDD has bitten the dust, but if not then it could possibly be some sort of HDD or bootsector corruption.

[Thulack]

I blame Zadrian for cursing your PC to not startup now lol.