BSOD Problem? HDD failure??

[Scotty]

K guy. My sisters PC (my old one)
specs:

AMD 3200+ (Sckt 939)
512MB DDR400 (i think) Corsair Value Select RAM
Maxtor 80GB SATA HDD
ASUS A8N-VM CSM (Nvidia 6150 onboard)
Gigabyte Aircruser G WiFi PCI card
420W Akasa PSU
DVD+/- RW IDE Drive

Shutdown, whilst she was browsing the web (IE -ugh...) and on MSN. It apparently (this is a technical term btw) made a fuzzy noise... yea.. i know helpful right? Although its currently unplugged (everything) and just made a noise again which im guessing is the speakers, the light on the extension lead keeps flickering, so maybe she had a power overload (theres like 10 plugs coming off one!)

Now the BSOD reads:

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

0x000000ed (0x83397D98, 0xC0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Now search that in Google you get fook all.

Right now im going to grab the drive and put it in my system on a spare SATA port to see if the HDD has failed, which seems like it could have done ( 3 boots 3 BSODs all the same).

If the HDD hasn't failed and works, any clues?

[mtekk]

The boot sector or file system may have become corrupted. Look at this MS KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185). The first digit sequence was the important one, not the stuff in the parentheses. I'd follow the Damaged File System repair part in the KB, and see if that fixes it.

[Cannibal23]

if you can hook it up to another machine let it do a scan disk and repair on your boot partition. most likely something dirty happend when it shut down last and has the file system messed up. have you tried booting to safe mode?

[Spawn-Inc]

here is what microsoft says about it, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302

and i would say take the drive to another pc and do a checkdisc on it and see what that does, also scan it with adaware.

[mtekk]

I love how MS has multiple KB articles covering the exact same problem and give the exact same solution.

KB 555302 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302) and KB 297185 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185) cover the same thing and have the same solution :rolleyes:

[Scotty]

Right guys, the HDD works fine, nothing wrong with it atall, worked fine no issues etc.

So back into the other PC. Boots, just as it got to the welcome screen it shutdown.

Now this 'fuzy noise' the really strange bit happened again, i noticed the light on the extension looked like it was shorting. Also this was as i plugged the PSU back in, the PSU switch was OFF. So the Computer was (or shouldn't have been) drawing power.

I reboot and it works fine. No BSOD, no random shut off. So rebooted and once again, fine.

So i have no idea what it was, the HDD was in perfect order, i didn't do check disk or anything on it. The PC was fine, it appears the problem could have been down to a electrical issue, not sure what but after remove the 2nd of 2 extension cables and just shoving it and the monitor on the second it seems to be working. Right now the other cable isn't being used.

+rep to all those who helped though :)
edit: damn can't rep myself for helping myself :(

[Spawn-Inc]

here have a rep on behalf of me to you :)

it's awesome when things start to work again!

[Cannibal23]

hmm twilight zone at Scotty's place. i hate it when there is random stuff like this. its great that it resolves itself because you dont have to sit there fixing it. at the same time however you never get to know what really happend and if it will happen again