Defragged to death?
I was working on a computer for my gf's brother, gateway, windows 7, and installed updates, ran a defrag, then left, i walk away, the computer is on a black screen, then i reboot, try to run startup repair, and it sits for 4 hours and does nothing. What should i do? OS reload is the last possible resort.
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Re: Defragged to death?
hdd randomly crap out?
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Re: Defragged to death?
Can you boot to safe mode? It's not an SSD is it?
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Re: Defragged to death?
It overheated half way through the defray and toasted the file system, took it to a friend with a data recovery system. Personal files are toast... Reinstall required.
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Dowaaahhh???
EDIT:
Well, except for that time one I was using caught on fire...
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Re: Defragged to death?
Sound like an interesting story.Originally Posted by x88x
Dowaaahhh???
EDIT:
Well, except for that time one I was using caught on fire...
so far left of center i'm in right field
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Haha, less interesting than it sounds, unfortunately. It was a big, old HDD, with big, old chips...one of the chips was touching the metal frame of the case, and when I turned it on it burst into flames. ..that was my first encounter with fire in a computer...
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Re: Defragged to death?
...and now more info is required.
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Re: Defragged to death?
Diluzio, make sure that the drive is not failing. It's not unusual for a hard drive with read issues to start running hot, so if that's the case, I'd test for failure before reinstalling anything.
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Re: Defragged to death?
lol, the only other time I can verify that there was fire involved was this....and now more info is required.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...ad.php?t=24905
Other than that, I've had a couple PSU blow up on me...well, capacitors in PSUs anyway...makes a huge popping sound...and then the smoke comes..
TBCS 5TB Club :: coilgun :: bench PSU :: mightyMite :: Zeus :: E15 Magna EVThat we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
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