Timeline for Possible hard drive failure?
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| Apr 12, 2012 at 15:36 | comment | added | Panayiotis | @Moab Have to visit the store for a new sata cable so that has to wait a few days, I have however replaced the power cable and will wait to see how it goes | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 15:34 | history | edited | Panayiotis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2012 at 15:26 | comment | added | Moab | @Panayiotis Then that rules out the hard drive, Edit your question to include this new information please. If it is a desktop, replace the hard drive data cable. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 9:35 | comment | added | Panayiotis | @Moab I already did and I passed all the tests (SMART,self-test,short generic,long generic) | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 6:09 | comment | added | Moab | Download the diagnostics from the hard drive manufacturers website and run a diagnostic on the drive. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 19:46 | comment | added | Panayiotis | My other PC is a laptop so can't really test with a different PSU. As for changing the SATA cable I haven't got one at the moment but will try to get one as soon as possible and see what happens | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 19:37 | answer | added | Kyle Jones | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 19:35 | comment | added | David | Make sure that power cable and SATA cable are plugged in firmly (SATA cable needs to be checked on the motherboard and the hard drive). Have you tried replacing the sate cable and using a different plug on the power cable? If that doesn't work, (I know this would be a little bit of a stretch), but maybe that portion of the PSU is going bad and not giving power to the HDD... If you have another computer with roughly the same specs or more, I would try swapping out the PSU and see if it happens again. Also, as a side note you should clean your computer our with canned air once every 1-2 months. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 19:17 | history | asked | Panayiotis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |