Harddrive broken

[Cromyth]

My hard drive is broken. I was playing CSS when my computer went to a blue screen then restarted. My computer does that now and then because it is a peice of crap but other than that it was fairly normal. When it got to the loading screen it said "Operating System could not be found" So I took apart my computer and following my cousins instuctions I put the hard drive in the freezer to have it cool down to maybe get a reading off of it. After about 5-10 minutes in the freezer I took it out and tried again. This time it made a god awful beeping/screeching sound. I think I have to get a new hard drive and now everything I've been working on/pictures/videos, everything is gone. Stupid as hell. Btw im on my cousins laptop atm, I will be able to check the forums, but I will not be on STEAM or game until I get it fixed or a new one. But because of my money situation it seems I have to hope I fix it or my cousin does.

 

EDIT: My cousin is letting me use his computer for the time being.

[Akaru]

Putting it in the freezer was a bad idea and FAIL! The sudden temperature change could have influenced your hard drive to crack. Blowing the hard drive cool with a fan is sufficient. Or ice crystals could have formed on your hard drive and when you took it out, it melted, leaving water droplets on your hard drive. Nice try, don't listen to your cousin ever again.

[Lefty]

Putting it in the freezer was a bad idea and FAIL! The sudden temperature change could have influenced your hard drive to crack. Blowing the hard drive cool with a fan is sufficient. Or ice crystals could have formed on your hard drive and when you took it out, it melted, leaving water droplets on your hard drive. Nice try, don't listen to your cousin ever again.

 

^This, Wasn't so smart about putting it in a freezer

[tinkerbell]

LOL hahahahhahahhahahahha, next time if your toaster is broken or microwave is fucked up, try putting that in a microwave for an hour while switched on.

 

on the first sign of the hard drive dying (BSOD or clicking) buy your self a new hard drive and use http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html and copy it to your new hard drive, get rid of the broken one and voila, fixed

[Akaru]

^This, Wasn't so smart about putting it in a freezer

 

Phew. I totally thought I was going to get flamed for what I posted.

[Hiphopopotomus]

No, it was a good post, not sure why anyone would thing of putting computer hardware in a freezer in the first place........

[2 Dwarves, 1 Coat]

Just a quick question that may or may not be relevent.......did you perhaps install an AMD dual core optimizer shortly before the crash?

[Cromyth]

Just a quick question that may or may not be relevent.......did you perhaps install an AMD dual core optimizer shortly before the crash?

 

No it was completely random. BTW, the freezer thing actually works. My cousin is going to college for Computer Engineering and when he was messing with it he said it smelt like it burned also it was really hot to the touch so he put it in the freezer to cool it down and maybe it crashed because of it over-heating. Or something. I don't know. He is still trying to fix it

 

Btw: It wasnt in the freezer for like 1 hour. It was in there a max of 5 minutes and it being so warm there is no time for ice crystals to form. When he took it out it was sufficently cooler but still warm.

[Wrathek]

putting a hard drive in the freezer for a short time or in the fridge over night is definitely worth trying if you just want to salvage data off of a hard drive.. dont listen to these people.

[PotshotPolka]

putting a hard drive in the freezer for a short time or in the fridge over night is definitely worth trying if you just want to salvage data off of a hard drive.. dont listen to these people.

 

You should at least bag it right? I've got like a dozen ESD bags, at least one for every part of my PC.