RandomBastard
Can't get enough of FH
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My desktop has killed a hard drive for the second time in a week.
I say killed because the drives seem perfectly healthy except for the fact that they will not boot. The mbr seems to be corrupted by something, fixing this only allows me about an hour of usage if that.
So what's wrong? My thoughts are the motherboard or the psu.
Its not the ram, I ran a memtest on the ram and it passed 100%.
So is my IDE controller dead? (They're IDE drives) or is my psu killing hard drives (doesn't affect the sata drives although admittedly I'm not booting from them).
The only symptoms I've been able to coax out of partition magic et al, (I love minipe) are "Partition unexpectedly dismounted (1516)" "abnormal disk geometry" and "invalid MBR"
I say killed because the drives seem perfectly healthy except for the fact that they will not boot. The mbr seems to be corrupted by something, fixing this only allows me about an hour of usage if that.
So what's wrong? My thoughts are the motherboard or the psu.
Its not the ram, I ran a memtest on the ram and it passed 100%.
So is my IDE controller dead? (They're IDE drives) or is my psu killing hard drives (doesn't affect the sata drives although admittedly I'm not booting from them).
The only symptoms I've been able to coax out of partition magic et al, (I love minipe) are "Partition unexpectedly dismounted (1516)" "abnormal disk geometry" and "invalid MBR"