Dropped desktop computer

[Shenopiquewa]

So today a wire got caught in my chair and pulled my desktop over when I turned. It fell about two feet. The computer froze so I turned it off. After a few minutes I turned it back on and now it runs very slow. I checked to see if everything inside was secure and/or broken and everything appears fine. The ram was not registering so I removed all but one stick and now after another reboot it seems to be working like normal except I got a error on start up: ORCA Write failure(23). I'm guessing I may have damaged my hard drive?

 

[wolverine96]

Yes, it sounds like you damaged your hard drive. Hopefully it was backed up recently. The RAM you removed is probably bad, too. Try each stick one at a time.

 

[Shenopiquewa]

So after another reboot it ran cmdisk twice in a row and when windows started it is being slow again with the same error. I don't have a spare hard drive nor do I have anybody that lives anywhere near me with a computer I can test it on. What other things could I do to make sure it is the hard drive and not possibly the motherboard that I damaged.

Edit: Now a few minutes later after another reboot and trying to figure this out it is running fine and all the ram is registering. I still get the error when windows loads. What should I do?

 

[wolverine96]

If you have a USB drive, you can make a boot drive from it. Disconnect the hard drive and boot from the USB drive. If you can use the computer, the hard drive is probably the issue.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx

 

[Shenopiquewa]

I don't have a flash drive. I would go out and buy one but I'm currently unable to leave home due to injuries.

Apparently the write failure error is from private internet access. Though I find nothing helpful when I google it.

 

[wolverine96]

Are you able to create text files, images, etc.?

 

[Shenopiquewa]

Yes. And it saves just fine. Also everything is back to opening slowly and I get big spikes when watching/loading stuff. Everything on the desktop works fine except for slow downs but opening from start and the task bar does not work.