A few weeks ago my brother turned on his PC and it gave him the error message telling him that he didn't have a proper boot device and that he needed one or something. Its the screen that like if you have it set to boot from the cdrom and there isn't a cd in the drive. Anyway he was booting form his HDD when it said this. THis was similar to the same stunt that my PC played on me when my deathstar came to the darkside. Anyway it was fine after a few reboots and a few playing with cables here and there and has been for weeks.
Up until yesterday that is. We went to format windows and upon formatting right when it got to 100% it gave a nice big error message saying something to the extent of "the partition cannot be formatted it might be damage or not plugged in. Please plug in a working parition. We attempted to format the drive AGAIN and went at it like 3-4 times all getting the same error message upon reaching 100%. I don't know what went wrong. Anyway the next day after a whole day of the computer being off we went at it again and it worked. He's now running a fresh install of windows and everything is wroking great.
Its an old Maxtor 40GB 5400RPM....Its about 1-2 years old at max I don't know. Could this mean a possible death in the near future and these are like early warning signs? :?:
Up until yesterday that is. We went to format windows and upon formatting right when it got to 100% it gave a nice big error message saying something to the extent of "the partition cannot be formatted it might be damage or not plugged in. Please plug in a working parition. We attempted to format the drive AGAIN and went at it like 3-4 times all getting the same error message upon reaching 100%. I don't know what went wrong. Anyway the next day after a whole day of the computer being off we went at it again and it worked. He's now running a fresh install of windows and everything is wroking great.
Its an old Maxtor 40GB 5400RPM....Its about 1-2 years old at max I don't know. Could this mean a possible death in the near future and these are like early warning signs? :?:
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