- Jan 20, 2020
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I really bunged this one up.
The drive crashed on me, it recovered through auto-repair and in the midst of backing up the data on the drive, I had the brainwave; "hey! This is taking a long time; I should restart the computer again!" Bad call. Black screen with cursor and endless incomplete restart loops. No boot options. No F12 response. Took me all day and night to get the thing to actually try automatic repairs and now, after 8 hours, it's just over 1100 sectors in, on stage 1, 0% progress and time left: 999 hours.
I'm not as stupid as I sound, honestly; I just have endless computer issues, as you can see from my threads here. I'm one of those people. Restarting made sense, because my computers often drag ass when some *vital* program, like steam, discord or firefox decides it needs an update. I restart, it installs and works better.
So what I've done now is reset windows and that seems to have allowed it to try self-repair and that's going as described, but obviously non-viable. It's been a while since I backed-up last, so I'll loose some data, but not much.
What I'm wondering is if I can just shut it down or abort the repair somehow and then physically remove the drive and if it will then start normally. That has me a little worried, because as this is just a data-drive and not the one I use to run the PC, I can't see why it's doing this, so I want to open it up and see if I can spot any damage to anything else anyways. A burn-out, something of that nature.
After that, if I can; I'll slap the bad drive in a shell and spend some $$$ on a data recovery program to see if I can get anything back.
What I have is a Gigabyte motherboard (win 10, and no; wouldn't let me remove last updates, either) with the PC systems run off an SSD and four HDDs of varying sizes in a mix of WD and Hitachi. The one that failed is, I *think* the oldest, but there is no special array or partitions; they are each their own drive.
I use one for day to day stuff to keep the burden off the small SSD, The one that failed is my "Current" drive and then I have my full backup drive, a low-access, high-reliability model and then another which just carries an additional backup of my movies and music. A little paranoid? Maybe. But I've had a lot of crashes like this over the years.
Recovery disc didn't work (had it for years, refused to read). No accessible saved images. No accessible restore points.
Thanks for your time. Hope this covers all the bases.
The drive crashed on me, it recovered through auto-repair and in the midst of backing up the data on the drive, I had the brainwave; "hey! This is taking a long time; I should restart the computer again!" Bad call. Black screen with cursor and endless incomplete restart loops. No boot options. No F12 response. Took me all day and night to get the thing to actually try automatic repairs and now, after 8 hours, it's just over 1100 sectors in, on stage 1, 0% progress and time left: 999 hours.
I'm not as stupid as I sound, honestly; I just have endless computer issues, as you can see from my threads here. I'm one of those people. Restarting made sense, because my computers often drag ass when some *vital* program, like steam, discord or firefox decides it needs an update. I restart, it installs and works better.
So what I've done now is reset windows and that seems to have allowed it to try self-repair and that's going as described, but obviously non-viable. It's been a while since I backed-up last, so I'll loose some data, but not much.
What I'm wondering is if I can just shut it down or abort the repair somehow and then physically remove the drive and if it will then start normally. That has me a little worried, because as this is just a data-drive and not the one I use to run the PC, I can't see why it's doing this, so I want to open it up and see if I can spot any damage to anything else anyways. A burn-out, something of that nature.
After that, if I can; I'll slap the bad drive in a shell and spend some $$$ on a data recovery program to see if I can get anything back.
What I have is a Gigabyte motherboard (win 10, and no; wouldn't let me remove last updates, either) with the PC systems run off an SSD and four HDDs of varying sizes in a mix of WD and Hitachi. The one that failed is, I *think* the oldest, but there is no special array or partitions; they are each their own drive.
I use one for day to day stuff to keep the burden off the small SSD, The one that failed is my "Current" drive and then I have my full backup drive, a low-access, high-reliability model and then another which just carries an additional backup of my movies and music. A little paranoid? Maybe. But I've had a lot of crashes like this over the years.
Recovery disc didn't work (had it for years, refused to read). No accessible saved images. No accessible restore points.
Thanks for your time. Hope this covers all the bases.
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