Hdd(?)

Ratonetwothreetwoone

<div class="IPBDescription">messing up</div> ima just copy and paste this from anarkis window, and see what you all think...

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->rat32123: last night
rat32123: im sleeping soundly
rat32123: i awake to what sounds like my hard drive ticking
rat32123: its going "ticka tick ticka tick ticka tick"
rat32123: over and over and over
rat32123: i go check it oot
rat32123: comp is frozen
rat32123: then the blue screen of death pops up
rat32123: yes of death!
rat32123: says
rat32123: "windows **** up restart your comp if this is the first time youve gotten this message"
rat32123: so i does a hard restart
rat32123: all the while hdds going "ticka tick ticka tick"
rat32123: starts up
rat32123: says my primary and secondary boot drives
rat32123: ARE NON EXISTANT
rat32123: and hardware monitor found a problem
rat32123: so i says **** it
rat32123: shut down comp
rat32123: takes me forever to sleep cuz im so worried about my baby
rat32123: so i wake up now
rat32123: start up comp
rat32123: it brings up hardware monitors little ****
rat32123: and im all
rat32123: oh oh AANND its ticka ticking still
rat32123: so im all
rat32123: dubbya tee eff i just exit and save changes
rat32123: magically the hdd stops ticka ticking
rat32123: and it boots JUST-FINE<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Ratonetwothreetwoone

i have 2 hard drives by the way, two 80 gigs.. i dont know which one it was but most likely my master

CommunistWithAGun

The mater drive died

Status_Quo

Restart your computer and open BIOS. Try changing the primary harddrive from there. If that's not it and you haven't been playing with the jumpers on the hardware itself, I can't think of anything. Other than the harddrive simply being broken of course.

Zaggy

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Ratonetwothreetwoone

so you think if i just backup what i want on the secondary itll be fine and then i get the primary fixed?

and its still working now... i can get into c: etc, i think itll just die soon...

Status_Quo

What I'd do if I were you:
Leave the computer alone. Buy a new harddrive (or get one that works in some other way). Install said harddrive. Make new harddrive primary through jumpers or BIOS (if your motherboard can do that, I know some can't override the jumpers). Re-install operating system on new harddrive and copy everything you want from the old harddrive(s) to the new one. Remove old harddrive or only use it to store data you won't miss if the drive dies.

I'm not much of a gambler though, and I have several files I doubt I'll be able to replace on my computer. Are you willing to risk losing everything?

Ratonetwothreetwoone

im just gonna back up my things on the d: cuz im pretty sure that ones working fine, then make that my primary and wait to get the other one replaced, last time one of my hdd's cacked i was able to get it replaced, it was cool tho because it was a 60 har drive that broke and they sent back an 80 gig