So i had an old pc with a 250g HDD and it had 3 partitions. One of the partition was almost full with 20gb free space available and me being a dum dum pasted a file just under 20gb in that partition. As soon as it finished pasting it, the pc crashed and would never boot (it was old win 7 pc). Now i have built a new pc and im planning to reuse the old HDD. Is there anyway to repair it and reuse it?
#HDD crashed. can i repair and reuse it?
midnight sparrow
hazy valve
check if the hdd is detected in bios firstly
midnight sparrow
kay will try that. thx for the reply
pallid atlas
kay will try that. thx for the reply
Any success?
midnight sparrow
Any success?
i havent tried yet. do u have any other solutions?
hazy valve
Just plug it in ur brand new pc
go to disk management
and you should be able to see it
Now I don't know if the reason it wasnt booting was that it broke or cause it corrupted the windows
u should've specified what do mean by 'would never boot'
midnight sparrow
There was no display output when i turned on the pc
hazy valve
a normal hdd cannot cause that
it would send u in the bios or either say there's no boot device
midnight sparrow
hmm maybe something got fried in that pc. I searched a bit online as well and the worst i saw was hdd crash and most other times it would just slow down the HDD when that happens. Lets see
im gonna buy the USB-SATA cable for 3.5 inch tomo and try it
hazy valve
go to disk management
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midnight sparrow
u dont need to boot on it
Im not booting on it. So my new pc has a new ssd with os and a 1TB HDD. so i disconnected the SATA cable from my new 1TB hdd and connected with my 250gb old HDD and it didnt boot even after 10 mins of booting animation. I went to bios to check the booting drive and it had selected my ssd. i dont know why this is happeneing. The second time i tried entering the bios i was stuck in the "press del to enter UEFI bios" screen forever.
Now that i have plugged in my new HDD everything is fine
i was looking online if there is any way to format my old HDD in BIOS
hazy valve
an alternative would be booting it with a flash drive using the windows installer, after u can press shift+f12 accessing the cmd => diskpart => list disk = select disk (the hdd u wanna format => clean
hazy valve
Im not booting on it. So my new pc has a new ssd with os and a 1TB HDD. so i dis...
u could force boot on ur main ssd
or plug the hdd while the pc is on (but that could damage it) :D
midnight sparrow
u could force boot on ur main ssd
Hey is there anyway we can vc? i can explain it to you better there
midnight sparrow
Hey i went into bios and the pc seems to detect the old 250 gb hdd
midnight sparrow
Stuck in this screen after i connected my old hdd
midnight sparrow
When i unplug my old HDD the pc runs normally
hazy valve
When i unplug my old HDD the pc runs normally
i see, it makes ur thing super slow, happened to me before,
midnight sparrow
i mean the HDD is 14 yo
but was barely even used
i have some things which i wanna do in linux so was planning to dual boot
also i tried to go into win recovery and i got this error
but when i unplug my old HDD i dont get any of these errors. I dont understand why i need to repair my Boot configure data file (BCD) as mentioned by this error
midnight sparrow
i see, it makes ur thing super slow, happened to me before,
Hey so i tried downloading windows ISO into a bootable pendrive and used it to repair my hdd. The problem is when i go to bootmenu and select the flash drive it just bootloops. Is there no way to format my old HDD?