• Weird ass Hard drive corruption problems
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First, I noticed random full on freezes that last up to a minute, while my C: drive is 100% busy according to taskmanager. Then, my PC completely crashes and won't boot into windows anymore, saying that a device is missing. I think maybe a cable came loose, so I dive into the inner working of my comp and rattle around all the connections, try again, and what do you know, it starts again, but only after needing half a minute to detect my HDDs in POST. And the freezes are still there. So after a while of putting up with that shit I decide to search the culprit, removing one drive at a time and seeing what happens. When removing my main C: drive, a blue windows 8-esque message again tells me a device is missing. Weird, I thought Windows would need, you know, the drive with Windows on it to show a message like that. Then I remove one of my older unimportant-storage-drives and suddenly POSTing only takes the usual 3-4 seconds again, but afterwards the BIOS tells me to insert a boot drive even though my C: drive is connected and running. So I reconnect both drives and slowly boot back into Windows to check if it is actually on the drive I think it is on and it is definitely on a partition of my main 1TB drive and not on the 250GB unimportant-storage-drive. Now, that 250GB drive actually has an old broken install of Windows on it but I couldn't format the drive after installing on a different one, which I brushed off as an issue with Windows permissions or something and I never got around to figuring it out. In Windows I just tried to copy random data between my drives and something weird happened: When copying from the 250GB drive to any drive other than my main Windows Partition everything works fine, but when copying from the 250GB drive to my main Windows partition it fails with the error "Files or folders corrupted". Now, I don't really care that the drive is failing, I didn't really use it anymore, but why can't I boot without it installed even though my OS isn't on there and how do I fix it? Also, another weird thing: After booting into Windows I noticed that none of my autostart programs actually ran and that my chrome profile got corrupted, soooo yeah. Something fishy is going on here. [editline]7th June 2015[/editline] Okay apparently my C: drive got corrupted, as I sometimes can and sometimes can't move or delete files in that partition.
Ok now here is the situation: My MBR/Bootloader is fucked, when I try to boot from my windows drive I get "NTLDR is missing". I have a Live USB version of Fedora on my USB stick running right now, but the only way to fix the Bootloader would be to make a rescue DVD/USB from the Windows ISO on my HDD. Well Im shit out of luck since I dont have a DVD burner and the only usb stick I have is the one running Fedora. Any ideas? [editline]7th June 2015[/editline] And now Windows boots again. I fucking give up, today is not my day.
Get the S.M.A.R.T. data from the drive using HDTune or Linux alternatives to see if the harddrive is failing. If it's not, simply do a chkdsk or in Linux use [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G#Damaged_NTFS_filesystems]ntfsfix[/url]. If it is get a new harddrive, you shouldn't need a DVD-burner to reinstall/repair windows if your system is UEFI. There's lots of ways to boot off of USB, or even off of a quickly made partition on your harddrive.
Oh it is definitely failing, which is not surprising considering its a ~12 year old WD2500JB. It's currently making beautiful metal grinding noises. I think I also fixed my bootmanager problems by moving it with EasyBCD (such a nice program, I wish I knew about it earlier) to my C: drive, so that I can now remove the old drive and hopefully be done with this.
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