I've done a stupid thing

[shadowbyte]

so today I added another hdd to my pc

I had the pc off with all cables disconnected

I booted into the os successfuly, and when I went to put my side panel on, I DISCONNECTED THE POWER TO MY WINDOWS 10 DRIVE WHILE THE OS WAS RUNNING!!!!

naturally, the pc blue screened, but I recconected the power, and the os started normally

however,

my pc now will freeze for no reason, forcing a cold reboot

It also black screens when left alone, with no control. My monitor says nothing is connected when this happens

pls sned halp

 

my specs:

i5 4590

MSI Z97S SLI KRAIT

8gb corsair vengeance lp

USED r9 290x sapphire trix

Corsair HX750i

2x WD BLUE 1TB

NZXT S340

windows 10

[tomoki]

A power loss shouldn't do that much damage to your system. I know people would say otherwise but I've accidentally powered down my systems before and also forcibly shut down my systems before. Try a Windows Repair yet? 

 

Try Safe Mode yet? 

[Zach TOm]

I did this once on accident, hopefully you didnt have anything important on it bcuz ur not getting it back. Just install windows again and wipe the os drive when you are in the drive select in the installer and you are good

[Leonard]

You may need to reinstall windows although, clearing the CMOS properly might solve this too. 

[shadowbyte]

Just now, tomoki said:

A power loss shouldn't do that much damage to your system. I know people would say otherwise but I've accidentally powered down my systems before and also forcibly shut down my systems before. Try a Windows Repair yet? 

 

Try Safe Mode yet? 

what is a windows repair?

i have no idea about these things

[tomoki]

Okay you know what, restart your system, spam F8 and try Last Good Known Configuration. If that doesn't work, repeat process and select something along the lines of Windows Startup Repair. 

[Zach TOm]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

what is a windows repair?

i have no idea about these things

do you have anything important on the os drive?

[shadowbyte]

1 minute ago, Zach TOm said:

do you have anything important on the os drive?

yes

I have many video files from premiere and stuff from photshop

[shadowbyte]

4 minutes ago, tomoki said:

Okay you know what, restart your system, spam F8 and try Last Good Known Configuration. If that doesn't work, repeat process and select something along the lines of Windows Startup Repair. 

f8 didn't do anything

[tomoki]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

f8 didn't do anything

Weird because F8 should bring you to something like 

[shadowbyte]

Just now, tomoki said:

Weird because F8 should bring you to something like 

i'll try again

[vanished]

9 minutes ago, Zach TOm said:

I did this once on accident, hopefully you didnt have anything important on it bcuz ur not getting it back. Just install windows again and wipe the os drive when you are in the drive select in the installer and you are good

It's a little early to assume the partition is totally messed up beyond repair.  Even if the system completely does not bot, you can easily just boot ubuntu or some other live usb tool and pull the files off the "C drive" before formatting.

[shadowbyte]

@tomoki

yep

still nothing

it just boots right through BIOS to OS

[Zach TOm]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

@tomoki

yep

still nothing

it just boots right through BIOS to OS

what happens in the os

[shadowbyte]

Just now, Zach TOm said:

what happens in the os

it works fine until that random freeze or black screen

[tomoki]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-10/get-to-safe-mode-and-other-startup-settings-in-windows-10#v1h=tab01 try this. 

[Zach TOm]

can you grab your necessary files in that time, because if you can you should reformat that disk and reinstall windows 

[tomoki]

Just now, Zach TOm said:

can you grab your necessary files in that time, because if you can you should reformat that disk and reinstall windows 

That's like last resort and I would also partition the drive if I were to do that. If there's an external drive, even better. 

[Zach TOm]

Just now, tomoki said:

That's like last resort and I would also partition the drive if I were to do that. If there's an external drive, even better. 

how is it last resort?

[vanished]

3 minutes ago, Zach TOm said:

can you grab your necessary files in that time, because if you can you should reformat that disk and reinstall windows 

Like I said, you can boot up a live ubuntu usb and take all the time you want copying your files.  No need to try copying them on an unstable system that could crash at any second.

[Zach TOm]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Like I said, you can boot up a live ubuntu usb and take all the time you want copying your files.  No need to try copying them on an unstable system that could crash at any second.

ok, I havent had any experience with ubuntu

[tomoki]

8 minutes ago, Zach TOm said:

how is it last resort?

Just something that's formed in my mind hahaha. Perhaps its not last resort in this case. 

I've formatted my drives and other computers so many times that it feels like a hassle to set it back up to the way I like it every time; therefore, I find the source of my problem in order to prevent that. 

 

When I was younger and knew absolutely nothing about computers, my mom would take the computer to a computer fixing store where they'd basically wipe my HDD and give the computer back to me. I lost so much data from that and what I learnt from those experiences combined is what formulated this sorta thinking. Sorry