Hey all, yesterday I tried to boot up my pc and it went through the bios splash but then went to a
black screen with a blinking underscore. Pressed the power button and it instantly turned off so I
tried a couple more times, and it did the exact same thing. Next time I tried to go into the bios and
it would not let me it just kept ignoring all commands during the bios splash and going straight to
black screen with the blinking underscore. I messed around on the inside making sure all
connections were ok, RAM, connectors, GPU, trying different ram slots or just one stick at a time
and nothing worked. I figured the hard drive might be gone but I could hear hard drive running
and no scratching or scraping sounds coming from it it indicate it had gone
bad. Im dumb and obviously hadnt backed up the system like a good child would but wasnt too
upset about losing it still just a pain to download all the stuff I had again. So I installed windows 7
to my slave drive and unplugged the primary. Once I had it running I plugged the original primary
hdd back in it didn't pick it up at first but I went under Device manager and scanned for hardware
changes and sure it enough it picked it right up. I could go into it and everything is there all my
stuff looks like the exact same storage space used as before nothing missing that I am aware of
AND it says the disk is healthy so I really have no clue what is wrong at this point.
Ran chkdsk on it and of course it said it found problems and fixed them, tried to boot from primary
with secondary not even plugged in and it did the same thing black screen blinking underscore.
I thought maybe it had a bad sector and thats why it wouldnt load but chkdsk did not seem to fix
it. I dont have much experience with dealing w sectors going bad so not sure it that it was it is or
not or if chkdsk can actually fix it like it says it scanned for and should fix.
Anyone got any idea what this could be and how to fix it with out wiping the drive. If wiping it is the
only option to actually fix it then its fine just would prefer not to if possible.
System specs:
Primary hdd ST 500 Gb
Secondary WD 1 TB
8 Gb RAM
CPU: AMD FX 6200
GPU: Radeon HD 6870
I have had the system for about 5 years I built it back in 2011-2012. Also Ive read a lot about
people plugging in a secondary hdd and it not reading the first but ive had both of these hard
drives plugged in for a long time and have never had that issue.
Thanks for any and all help. Let me know if there is anything else you need! Also primary hard drive was running windows 10 upgraded
free from 7 which is why I have 7 on the secondary drive now.
black screen with a blinking underscore. Pressed the power button and it instantly turned off so I
tried a couple more times, and it did the exact same thing. Next time I tried to go into the bios and
it would not let me it just kept ignoring all commands during the bios splash and going straight to
black screen with the blinking underscore. I messed around on the inside making sure all
connections were ok, RAM, connectors, GPU, trying different ram slots or just one stick at a time
and nothing worked. I figured the hard drive might be gone but I could hear hard drive running
and no scratching or scraping sounds coming from it it indicate it had gone
bad. Im dumb and obviously hadnt backed up the system like a good child would but wasnt too
upset about losing it still just a pain to download all the stuff I had again. So I installed windows 7
to my slave drive and unplugged the primary. Once I had it running I plugged the original primary
hdd back in it didn't pick it up at first but I went under Device manager and scanned for hardware
changes and sure it enough it picked it right up. I could go into it and everything is there all my
stuff looks like the exact same storage space used as before nothing missing that I am aware of
AND it says the disk is healthy so I really have no clue what is wrong at this point.
Ran chkdsk on it and of course it said it found problems and fixed them, tried to boot from primary
with secondary not even plugged in and it did the same thing black screen blinking underscore.
I thought maybe it had a bad sector and thats why it wouldnt load but chkdsk did not seem to fix
it. I dont have much experience with dealing w sectors going bad so not sure it that it was it is or
not or if chkdsk can actually fix it like it says it scanned for and should fix.
Anyone got any idea what this could be and how to fix it with out wiping the drive. If wiping it is the
only option to actually fix it then its fine just would prefer not to if possible.
System specs:
Primary hdd ST 500 Gb
Secondary WD 1 TB
8 Gb RAM
CPU: AMD FX 6200
GPU: Radeon HD 6870
I have had the system for about 5 years I built it back in 2011-2012. Also Ive read a lot about
people plugging in a secondary hdd and it not reading the first but ive had both of these hard
drives plugged in for a long time and have never had that issue.
Thanks for any and all help. Let me know if there is anything else you need! Also primary hard drive was running windows 10 upgraded
free from 7 which is why I have 7 on the secondary drive now.