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Random no boot device bsods after using computer for a month

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Hi I built my computer a while ago and everything was fine and about a week ago it blue screened and then went into bios saying there was no boot device after a few trys restarting it was fine. But now today I keep getting blue screens and I will restart the computer and unplug the hard drive and plug it back in and then it will work for not very long. Also I have tried using SeaTools but every time I do the Long Generic test it doesn't go past 0%

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You probably have a bad hdd. Stop using your system and copy the data with a program like ddrescue to a new drive or image.

Do you think I will have to buy a new one?

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36 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You probably have a bad hdd. Stop using your system and copy the data with a program like ddrescue to a new drive or image.

Exactly this! don't try to use it at all until you can copy it, you may end up losing all your data if you do.

Troubleshooting a pc will make you believe in gremlins.

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Just now, Deagon said:

Exactly this! don't try to use it at all until you can copy it, you may end up losing all your data if you do.

But you have backups to restore. RIGHT....

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3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

But you have backups to restore. RIGHT....

I changed the sata power cable and data cable and put them both in different slots and that seemed to help but I turned the computer off for now so I don't have to worry about it.

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2 minutes ago, Linky said:

I changed the sata power cable and data cable and put them both in different slots and that seemed to help but I turned the computer off for now so I don't have to worry about it.

Do you have backups, you should make them if you don't. 

 

Else get another hdd to image it to. and it should all work fine 80-90% of the time. Normally when a hdd fails you miss certian parts, but not all of it and a fsck is enough to restore order to the drive. You may have one coropt file of if your luck free space is bad.

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7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you have backups, you should make them if you don't. 

 

Else get another hdd to image it to. and it should all work fine 80-90% of the time. Normally when a hdd fails you miss certian parts, but not all of it and a fsck is enough to restore order to the drive. You may have one coropt file of if your luck free space is bad.

This computer was my first so I don't have any spare drives and I don't have a external drive big enough to copy all my data to.

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Just now, Linky said:

This computer was my first so I don't have any spare drives and I don't have a external drive big enough to copy all my data to.

Buy one??

 

If you don't care about the data you can just rma the drive

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You could follow my guide it will fix your HD if it is repairable: 

 

 

(you should back up your most important things)

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1 minute ago, jvb50m said:

You could follow my guide it will fix your HD if it is repairable: 

 

 

(you should back up your most important things)

If its a bad hdd, there is no use. It will just keep destroying its self.

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

If its a bad hdd, there is no use. It will just keep destroying its self.

That is why I said "if it's repairable"

it will also confirm if  it is dead 

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5 hours ago, jvb50m said:

You could follow my guide it will fix your HD if it is repairable: 

 

 

(you should back up your most important things)

When I did SFC Scan Now it did it and finished saying "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation"

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5 hours ago, jvb50m said:

You could follow my guide it will fix your HD if it is repairable: 

 

 

(you should back up your most important things)

My results for scanning in safe mode were "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.log windir/logs/CBS/CBS.log. For example C : /Windows/Logs/CBS/CBS.log. Note that logging is currenly not supported in offline servicing scenarios."

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ok that means you most likely have bad sectors in your hd did you run chkdsk?

(I had the same issue the only way to fix it for me was to reinstall everything and copy the files)

but i was lucky my hd was salvageable which is rare

 

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Just now, jvb50m said:

ok that means you most likely have bad sectors in your hd did you run chkdsk?

(I had the same issue the only way to fix it for me was to reinstall everything and copy the files)

but i was lucky my hd was salvageable which is rare

 

yeah i ran it then did sfc scan again in safe mode and it blue screened

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then your HD is bad I recommend making a system backup and either buying a new drive or wiping your current one and reinstalling windows (using your system save)

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8 hours ago, jvb50m said:

then your HD is bad I recommend making a system backup and either buying a new drive or wiping your current one and reinstalling windows (using your system save)

I tried to reinstall Windows and the drive wouldn't show up on the screen where you chose to install it on

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you need to do advanced installation to reformat the drive

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9 hours ago, jvb50m said:

you need to do advanced installation to reformat the drive

so this problem is definitely being caused by the hard drive? 

 

9 hours ago, jvb50m said:

you need to do advanced installation to reformat the drive

 

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