i'm having PC problems and maybe you guys can help?

[magus]

allright so here's the thing,sometimes windows seems to refuse to boot up,it shows the loading screen and then *BAM* it gets stuck on a black screen

now i suspect the cause is that one of the 2 HD in this computer is pretty close to dying as it's quite old (like 15 years old) in fact the windows event viewer tells me that it found a damaged block on  \Device\Harddisk0\D. and the time for when he finds such error strikes perfectly for when windows start

the hard disk that is supposedly dying is not the one where windows is installed so i was thinking of cutting it out,problem is i have no idea how to do so,i tried to do so from the boot menu,but the dying hard disk is set as the secondary IDE master,while the working hard disk is set as SATA1

so other than physicaly removing the fucked up hard disk is there anything i can do?

[lennedsay]

This video should help you.

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Vizzys]

if you go into the bios you might be able disable the ide port/disable ide

when you restart your comp itll say something like
"press f12 to enter setup" thats what you want to do, snoop around there

[magus]

that's what i did,but if i disable the ide port,it give me an error message

"disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter"

[Van Cruncheon]

yer boot drive is fucked. buy a new pc. 15 years old, fuck. sell your consoles if you need the money

[MrAngryFace]

I cant imagine having the same pc for 5 years if I had the money not to

[Great Rumbler]

5 years is kind of pushing it for a computer that sees regular use. 15 years? Dang, man, time to bail out.

[Joe Molotov]

Why would you even have a 15 year old HDD? It's probably 200MB and you can get a 1TB drive for like $60.

[Groogrux]

Actually, I'm on Newegg.com right now and they're starting at around $66 for 1TB.  My question is, how much does brand matter for HD's?

[Phoenix Dark]

I need a new HD or external HD, but I'm gonna wait for Cyber Monday

[Shaka Khan]

My personal record is a 6 year laptop, purely due to financial reasons obviously, but close to 15 years? and "pretty close to dying? Honey, it's already dead.

Sell plasma if you have to (I know a guy), but you need a new system, like, 10 years ago.

[Groogrux]

I need a new HD or external HD, but I'm gonna wait for Cyber Monday

Ooooh that's right around the corner too.  Good idea!

[magus]

guys guys one of the two hard disk is super old and it's in there just because it seemed like a waste to throw it away at the time,and it's 40 GB

[benjipwns]

You could just yank the cable and leave it in the bay until later if the BIOS won't cooperate.

Did you try disk check? It'll sometimes change things to ignore the bad blocks so you at least stop getting the error messages until the drive finally dies.

[Great Rumbler]

guys guys one of the two hard disk is super old and it's in there just because it seemed like a waste to throw it away at the time,and it's 40 GB

So...uh...is that were you store a random photo of a cat and your résumé?

[Diunx]

I need a new HD or external HD, but I'm gonna wait for Cyber Monday

Planning on getting a USB drive that day

[magus]

whelp c is now dead as windows always seems to get stuck while booting

and also i think i finally understand whats the problem,you see when i mounted the new hard disk,i didnt clear the other one so i had two windows XP installed so basicaly it boots from the old broken hard disk without me realizing it when it should boot from the new shiny one....

is there any solution to this other than the drastic "DELETE ALL,REINSTALL WINDOWS"

[Pringo]

whelp c is now dead as windows always seems to get stuck while booting

and also i think i finally understand whats the problem,you see when i mounted the new hard disk,i didnt clear the other one so i had two windows XP installed so basicaly it boots from the old broken hard disk without me realizing it when it should boot from the new shiny one....

is there any solution to this other than the drastic "DELETE ALL,REINSTALL WINDOWS"

Take out the hard drive that doesn't work and change the boot drive to the new one?

[chronovore]

Magoose, can't you just specify which HDD is C: in either dipswitches or BIOS, and then boot to the shiny new one?

My personal record is a 6 year laptop, purely due to financial reasons obviously, but close to 15 years? and "pretty close to dying? Honey, it's already dead.

Sell plasma if you have to (I know a guy), but you need a new system, like, 10 years ago.

5~6 years is, on average, how long I keep my systems. It's not the only machine I have going at a time, and I usually use the oldest ones less and less, but I have a hard time putting down Ol' Yeller.

[magus]

even if i did that,windows believe to be installed in D: if i change D: into C: windows won't magicaly believe to now be installed in C: so he wouldn't suddenly find anything

i went for the nuke option