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Help! Blue Screens!

Throughout the day today my PC has blue screen three times. What is it and how to fix it. Could it be my hard drive its a mech drive 1TB and its a green drive, a few years old. Specs are: 

 

Intel Core i7 3770k @ 4.2Ghz, MSI Z77A-G45, 16GB 1600Mhz, 7870Ghz, Corsair Carbide Series 330R, 2x 1TB WD Green Drive, Corsair AX860, Corsair H80i

 

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What does the BSOD say? There is usually a message and a matching error code. This will give us more information. Typically BSODs occur from a driver issue. Check Device Manager and see if there are any flags (yellow triangles)that indicate nonfunctioning devices.

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What does the BSOD say? There is usually a message and a matching error code. This will give us more information. Typically BSODs occur from a driver issue. Check Device Manager and see if there are any flags (yellow triangles)that indicate nonfunctioning devices.

I pictured the message given in the spoiler

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Sorry. Didn't see it on my phone. So that error is about your HDD. I would make a bootable disc of Seagate Seatools and boot to that then run the full tests and see what it says. If it comes up good, then check your BIOS settings. Make sure the storage settings are set to AHCI and not IDE.

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Sorry. Didn't see it on my phone. So that error is about your HDD. I would make a bootable disc of Seagate Seatools and boot to that then run the full tests and see what it says. If it comes up good, then check your BIOS settings. Make sure the storage settings are set to AHCI and not IDE.

Looks like its my hard drive, is there anyway to get a new SSD instead of HDD and transfer windows so I do not have to buy agian?

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They sell HDD upgrade kits that you can use to transfer files from one drive to another. It's basically just a SATA to USB adapter, and comes with cloning software. They claim to copy the OS over too, but I haven't tested that out myself; I just used it to recover files from a laptop that went kaput on me.

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Press R when you start up on the welcome screen (I think this is Windows XP). 

Type /chkdsk /p and hit enter, this will check for hardrive errors.

When this is done, type /fixboot and hit enter to repair any damaged files. Say yes if it asks whether or not you are sure or something along those lines.

Type exit and hit enter to reboot your pc.

 

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2605/fixing_the_dreaded_unmountable_boot_volume_error/ 

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