Friend lies ?

[proropke]

Just remember that this friends is almost addicted to lying, he lies every year less but still, when it comes to PC stuff, hes the expert and even if he knows what he saying is not true, well it becomes true, at least for him.

So the problem is when I built my own pc, I had everything new except HDD, I had problems installing hdd as I had 2 of them and the older worked but newer didn't however the old one seem very slow and had small storage so I tried putting my newer again, it didn't work, but I have found that I could re install windows on it, which fixed the problem. ( it seems that the windows that were installed on the newer HDD didn't work ) anyways using this HDD, it might be possible that I damaged it while putting it in the case (my theory) right now the side effects is blue screens really often while playing the game but mostly while closing the games. After blue screen I often get message something went wrong with HDD do backup now etc. Anyways my friends theory which I guess is very possible as I had problems with windows not working on newer HDD, anyways what he said is that you need to do something in BIOS before using new HDD... So who is right, should i do that SOMETHING that he don't seem to know himself thing and re install windows or buy new HDD ?

 

[Jonas Magnusson]

Does the new HDD work with any OS you have? Do you have them both selected as "boot" in BIOS?

 

[USAFRet]

Let's back up about 3 steps.
Completely discount whatever your friend said or did.

What did you do, what issues are you having, and what does not work?

 

[giantbucket]

several million years ago (in computer time), you had to go into BIOS and set up the hard drive parameters. heads, sectors, tracks, etc. the stuff used to be written on the hard drive label.

that BS went out of style shortly after disco did the same. disco came back, but thankfully that BS never did.

 

[proropke]

Let's back up about 3 steps.
Completely discount whatever your friend said or did.

What did you do, what issues are you having, and what does not work?

So I put everything together and the last part was HDD, I took it from my old computer and while booting it always come up with windows repair which looks something like this (http://www.mikelaverick.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/windows-7-startup-repair.jpg) I was waiting and it didn't seem to fix problem, so then what I tried is took HDD from my sisters broken computer (hdd still working) and everything booted nicely, but then I said no I don't want this HDD and put the one that didn't work, then I just re install windows and that's it. however while replacing HDD back to another I have indeed dropped the HDD that I'm using right now

EDIT: I also tried fixing the problem by messing around in BIOS, but nothing worked so I just re install windows

EDIT2: Btw this might sound like I'm retard and might be in fact the problem that I forgot to say. As I said i put HDD last but guess what, my case Is made really bad in my opinion and it would requires me to remove motherboard in order to put HDD in, but my hands were shaking I was breaking stuff, dropping things and I refused to do all this process again. MyHDD is on 1 screw right now , so it looks like if you put HDD on table and 1 screw holding it stuck on table.

 

[USAFRet]

So I put everything together and the last part was HDD, I took it from my old computer and while booting it always come up with windows repair

Yes, that often does not work.

then I just re install windows and that's it. however while replacing HDD back to another I have indeed dropped the HDD that I'm using right now

A dropped hard that exhibits 'issues' never gets better.

but my hands were shaking I was breaking stuff, dropping things and I refused to do all this process again.

That does not sound good.

 

[cradelikz]

Can you tell us which hardware is in your system?
Are the HDDs SATA or IDE?
Are you trying to use them installed at the same time?

 

[bobbybluz]

While the large majority of blue screens come from GPU driver issues I'd replace that dropped hard drive with a new one. Actually I'd use a SSD for a system drive anyway.

 

[wonderwerder]

Sounds like a mismatched HAL file.

 

[edwardhosoda]

if OS is installed to another hard drive, then you have to go to BIOS and set the booting disk.

 

[Poprin]

Toms hardware email this week has linked some seriously strange threads. Before pouring voodoo juice over your computer and attempting a satanic ritual to find the problem why don't you just run a boot time hard drive diagnostic on both drives and see if either of them are faulty?

 

[hang-the-9]

Let's back up about 3 steps.
Completely discount whatever your friend said or did.

What did you do, what issues are you having, and what does not work?

So I put everything together and the last part was HDD, I took it from my old computer and while booting it always come up with windows repair which looks something like this (http://www.mikelaverick.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/windows-7-startup-repair.jpg) I was waiting and it didn't seem to fix problem, so then what I tried is took HDD from my sisters broken computer (hdd still working) and everything booted nicely, but then I said no I don't want this HDD and put the one that didn't work, then I just re install windows and that's it. however while replacing HDD back to another I have indeed dropped the HDD that I'm using right now

EDIT: I also tried fixing the problem by messing around in BIOS, but nothing worked so I just re install windows

EDIT2: Btw this might sound like I'm retard and might be in fact the problem that I forgot to say. As I said i put HDD last but guess what, my case Is made really bad in my opinion and it would requires me to remove motherboard in order to put HDD in, but my hands were shaking I was breaking stuff, dropping things and I refused to do all this process again. MyHDD is on 1 screw right now , so it looks like if you put HDD on table and 1 screw holding it stuck on table.

Get a new hard drive, install clean setup of Windows on that, your issues will all go away. You have what sounds like a bad hard drive. I mean you are getting direct messages about the drive being bad that there are drive errors, AND you dropped it. That is all we need to know here that it's a hard drive issue.