TGA
09-02-2007, 12:00 PM
Ok last week I bought Vista and a few other upgrades for my PC. When I got home from work yesterday I put the new hard drive in and installed Vista. The install went very smooth but it took me the better part of the night to get it updated and set up to my liking.
I let it run overnight and don’t have it set to sleep/hibernate. I just hit the power button on my monitor when I am AFK. I don’t even log out since no one else uses my PC.
Anyway, this morning I decided to finish installing my software. I went to install News Bin Pro first but noticed everything seemed to be lagging. Even the explorer would hang saying “not responding”. So I tried to close everything in preparation for a reboot when I realized my HD LED was light solid. I have no idea what was causing all this hard drive activity. And the computer never did shut down for me, it eventually just flashed a BSOD and tried to reboot.
On reboot I got a “disk read error, Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart”. So I do and get the same message. On the next try I noticed my new 500GB WD hard drive is not showing the model number but rather BzBzBz all the way across the screen. So I went in to the bios and no matter what I try it list Bz repeatedly rather then the model name.
I also can not boot to my XP hard drive while my new HD is connected. I didn’t try booting to the Vista CD though.
So does anyone have any clue how this could happened or what I can do now? Can the hard drive be fixed?
I am going to go to the WD website and see if I can find a boot disk utility to try on the drive since I have no other ideas.
I let it run overnight and don’t have it set to sleep/hibernate. I just hit the power button on my monitor when I am AFK. I don’t even log out since no one else uses my PC.
Anyway, this morning I decided to finish installing my software. I went to install News Bin Pro first but noticed everything seemed to be lagging. Even the explorer would hang saying “not responding”. So I tried to close everything in preparation for a reboot when I realized my HD LED was light solid. I have no idea what was causing all this hard drive activity. And the computer never did shut down for me, it eventually just flashed a BSOD and tried to reboot.
On reboot I got a “disk read error, Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart”. So I do and get the same message. On the next try I noticed my new 500GB WD hard drive is not showing the model number but rather BzBzBz all the way across the screen. So I went in to the bios and no matter what I try it list Bz repeatedly rather then the model name.
I also can not boot to my XP hard drive while my new HD is connected. I didn’t try booting to the Vista CD though.
So does anyone have any clue how this could happened or what I can do now? Can the hard drive be fixed?
I am going to go to the WD website and see if I can find a boot disk utility to try on the drive since I have no other ideas.