conscooter

conscooter

got a problem with my computer at home

monday night it was working fine then all of a sudden it made a horrible clicking noise (just one loud click) and it froze... couldnt do anything

re-booted it and as soon as windows loaded up there was an error message saying something about my computer becoming unstable and needed to be re-booted - said it couldve had something to do with all the memory available being used up (even though there was nothing running as windows had just loaded) - it made the same noise a few seconds later and froze again.

re-boot! wouldnt even load up, couldnt find primary master or slave drives.

re-boot! same again - couldnt find primary or slave drives

re-boot... kinda worked this time - used the norton 'go back' feature to go back a couple of days... half way through it made the same clicking noise and froze...

re-boot... same again, froze half way through.

re-boot... booted up fine and seemed to be working fine i was monitoring memory usage and it wasnt being used up at all and it froze again!!!

i gave up after this. i thought it might be a power supply problem but it wouldnt explain it becoming unstable due to memory usage being used up.

dont know what to do now. tried entering setup while it was booting but after a few mins it just freezes.

any help at all would be great!

cheers

hard disk is fucked. technically speaking.

i've been clinging onto the hope it's my power supply

that's the news i didn't want to hear! you sure? anything i can do to TRY n sort it out without wipin everything?

it sounds like some or part of the hard disk has physically failed - that'll be the clicking. chances are not ALL of the hard disk will be lost, just whatever was on that sector when it failed - but the sounds of it - part of the operating system.

to fix it, it's not straight forward. your best bet is to get a new hard disk (or spare one) install windows on that from scratch, then have your OLD drive as a slave and try and rescue as much of your data as possible. or stick it in someone else's machine and try get the data.


there are SOME repair applications out there that might try and FIX the disk, but you'd have to scan for errors, repair them or ignore them THEN use the XP disk to re-install all missing system files to get the OS working again

u got an XP disk?