heavyness
09-02-2006, 09:35 PM
so i unplugged my pc to move while i paint my studio. once i plugged in back in, the shit hit the fan....
first, once in windows, it was moving very slow and couldn't access the E drive [serial ata extra harddrive, no OS on it]. then, windows kept freezing up. i restarted several times, sometimes it would freeze during boot. then, it did a "disk drive verification" or some kind of test. once i did get back in windows, i couldn't access the HDD at all. just going to My Computer would freeze up the pc.
needless to say, my E drive it acting weird. i unplugged that drive and everything is fine, except i just restarted again [moved it again for painting] and now Windows says "Validation Not Completed:Invalid Product Key"? i do own Windows XP, i have the box and i never got this message before.
is this because i removed the other hdds? i did a virus scan and a spyware scan... nothing. i thought maybe the sata cord got bumped, but i replugged it in, restarted, still weird.
windows xp
main hdd with os fine, acting fine
2 sata hdds, one acting weird
does a dead hdd act that way? does it slow down your computer to a crawl? it still shows up under the disk manager [when plugged in]. i just can't access the data without it freezing things up.
thanks in advnce.
first, once in windows, it was moving very slow and couldn't access the E drive [serial ata extra harddrive, no OS on it]. then, windows kept freezing up. i restarted several times, sometimes it would freeze during boot. then, it did a "disk drive verification" or some kind of test. once i did get back in windows, i couldn't access the HDD at all. just going to My Computer would freeze up the pc.
needless to say, my E drive it acting weird. i unplugged that drive and everything is fine, except i just restarted again [moved it again for painting] and now Windows says "Validation Not Completed:Invalid Product Key"? i do own Windows XP, i have the box and i never got this message before.
is this because i removed the other hdds? i did a virus scan and a spyware scan... nothing. i thought maybe the sata cord got bumped, but i replugged it in, restarted, still weird.
windows xp
main hdd with os fine, acting fine
2 sata hdds, one acting weird
does a dead hdd act that way? does it slow down your computer to a crawl? it still shows up under the disk manager [when plugged in]. i just can't access the data without it freezing things up.
thanks in advnce.