Hard drive problem?

[alphaziggs]

Basically here's what happened: my computer shuts off on its own and I couldn't turn it back on for a few minutes. After I finally get it turned on the psu started to smell so I went and replaced it. Now when I turn my computer on i can't get past the post screen. The post screen shows up then a black screen then it reboots and the post screen comes back again. Sometimes it does get past the post screen and it'll say preparing automatic repair (like maybe 1/10 times) but it'll reboot a second later. Even rarer than that I'll get a BSOD saying system thread exception not handled after the post screen.

I've removed the hard drive before and the computer won't go into that reboot cycle. It's also still recognized in the bios. Is there anyway to fix my hard drive? Should I just buy a new one? Or is it even my hard drive that's the problem?

 

[Rami Zerker Reini]

Are you able to get into the computer in Safe Mode? The "system thread exception not handled" = "most of the time is related to corrupt or non compatible or outdated graphics card drivers". If you have any reason to believe it could have something with the GPU, do say so.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Try booting from windows installation media.
Go to Repair my computer/Command prompt
and use

• 
  chkdsk /f

on your windows partition.

 

[Rami Zerker Reini]

If chkdsk /f doesn't work. try chkdsk /f /r /x

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there alphaziggs,

Have you measured the temps of your system. The fact that the system won't turn on for some time, points towards overheating.
Your system can't boot right?
If this is the case, I believe you have a couple of options:
- Use DOS tools. First you can use some data recovery tool for DOS mode. After that, you can test your drive with a hard drive testing tool for DOS.(either brand specific or a third party one)
- Attach the drive to another system as a secondary one and use OS ones.
Here are a couple of links:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Cheers,
D_Know_WD