Hello,
Recently, my hard drive has not been detected by my computer. I find that putting the SATA cable into another slot allows the BIOS to detect it, but only enough for the Windows logo to show up with the loading icon; after that, I get a blue screen with the frowny face, computer restarts, then it goes to BIOS and the hard drive does not spin up. I was able to reset the PC; however, when I went to the Edge browser after resetting to download another browser (because Edge sucks lol), the hard drive stopped reading, the computer froze, I was met with a blue screen, and it did the same thing it has been doing (BIOS not detecting the hard drive). I find that every time I switch from one SATA port to the other, it is detected at first, then the computer blue screen restarts and the hard drive is once again not detected.
So something is obviously defective in my system. I just want to know what so that I don't spend money on a hard drive to find out that wasn't the problem, or same thing with a new motherboard.
I will also add that the hard drive is a refurbished hard drive and that HDTune did show that it had a failed reallocated sector count. The hard drive operated at normal speed before this started occurring (I say this because another hard drive I owned before this one had the same reallocated sector count failure, but it showed signs of failure with frequent freezes and slow downs; this one hasn't done this).
Thanks! Any help is appreciated.
Recently, my hard drive has not been detected by my computer. I find that putting the SATA cable into another slot allows the BIOS to detect it, but only enough for the Windows logo to show up with the loading icon; after that, I get a blue screen with the frowny face, computer restarts, then it goes to BIOS and the hard drive does not spin up. I was able to reset the PC; however, when I went to the Edge browser after resetting to download another browser (because Edge sucks lol), the hard drive stopped reading, the computer froze, I was met with a blue screen, and it did the same thing it has been doing (BIOS not detecting the hard drive). I find that every time I switch from one SATA port to the other, it is detected at first, then the computer blue screen restarts and the hard drive is once again not detected.
So something is obviously defective in my system. I just want to know what so that I don't spend money on a hard drive to find out that wasn't the problem, or same thing with a new motherboard.
I will also add that the hard drive is a refurbished hard drive and that HDTune did show that it had a failed reallocated sector count. The hard drive operated at normal speed before this started occurring (I say this because another hard drive I owned before this one had the same reallocated sector count failure, but it showed signs of failure with frequent freezes and slow downs; this one hasn't done this).
Thanks! Any help is appreciated.