Hey guys I built my computer a little less than a month ago. Yesterday I moved around some of the wires. Basically all i really did was turn the hard drive around so that the cables were out of sight. On bootup windows told me about a hardware change and then just booted up. This morning I turned my computer on and all the sudden everything was extremely slow. Google chrome was barely loading and most of my programs would take 2-3 minutes to start up. At first I thought "Oh great, a virus." Well I ran norton a couple thousand times and nothing. I tried microsoft security essentials and that turned up nothing. My cpu usage was almost always under 20% and I have 8 gb of ram. Temps were fine and stuff so I thought maybe it was because of the hard drive. I shut it down and moved it back to original position and booted up. Windows then tells me that I need to launch start up repair. I did a couple times and each ended in an endless black screen. Finally it started to report no hard drive was plugged in. Now I was pretty angry and just decided a new, clean install of windows. On install the hdd was not listed. So can anyone tell me whether my hard drive broke or something? It spins up and is plugged in correctly. Plus does anyone know the reason for the slowness which it showed?
My specs:
i5 2500k @ stock
Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3 rev 1.3
650w rosewill capstone
9800gt 1 gb
500GB 7200rpm Toshiba laptop hdd
LG disc drive
8GB G skill ram 1600mhz
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Any help is appreciated! and sorry for making it so long lol.
My specs:
i5 2500k @ stock
Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3 rev 1.3
650w rosewill capstone
9800gt 1 gb
500GB 7200rpm Toshiba laptop hdd
LG disc drive
8GB G skill ram 1600mhz
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Any help is appreciated! and sorry for making it so long lol.