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Okay so ... Good and bad come together
14 years ago
i noticed a few comments in the journal which i will answer here too. O.o
I have an awesome new computer .... thats the good. I LOVE EEET!
Bad ... O.o So yeah when the crash of my old computer happened ... i tried all the means available to me to restore windows ...O.o it would not work ... not haveing any disc for windows didn't help ... i tried all the means possible since i had no access to a disc nor could get one ... But ...at least ... it wouldn't have made a difference ...cauz ...it was hardware related ... i static shocked on my harddrive 2 days before i rebooted and found out it won't boot anymore ...cauz i use to not shut my computer down often. O.o anyway i studied computer science i actually have a nice out of date degree in this feild :P mainly programming .. anyway ...you know circuit boards ...and static shocks don't mix at all. Now i dunno how on earth my touching the metal casing of the hard drive to check its temp ...somehow did this ... O.o it doesn't typically happen but O.o computer made the sound "PYOOOSH" ... windows session closed ...and my screen went in powersave mode ... indicating a power fluctuation happened ...O.o after this i spent two days using my computer and when i restarted it to give it a rest ... it didn't boot anymore ... "unmountable boot volume"
So i was hoping it was windows .. but it was more then that ... motherboards don't recognize this hdd anymore ...they recognize its 320 gigs ... but they can't see the name or type ..they can't even pickup the jumper if its master or slave ...so when windows starts ...it can't identify it ..an error occurs ...and the computer resets upon getting the error cauz its set to do so.
So i tried plugging it into my new computer ... this is when i found out the disc was the cauz ...when i plug it in ... as slave or any other setting ....the windows 7 of my new computer .... freezes on boot ... black screen keeps loading and eventually stops ..with that black screen, Bios doesn't detect it. at all .. i've tried both my old and a new IDE cable. my best guess is ... the static shock injured the little circuit board inside the HDD ... who knows
So i lost all my work ... O.o thank you ... forgetting to put my hand on the metal casing of the tower to ground myself. Also playing in it while its on wasn't very wise. So 15 years of work is gone ... lesson of this is backup your stuff when you get a chance on something. All i have left is what i had backed up on Dropbox and thats only my sketches in jpeg form...
Lost the new pic i was gonna post here the next day ..cauz for the first time i forgot to put the finished jpeg on dropbox like i always do. and this happened ..so its gone and it was all colored and nice :_; i also lost my logo. My brushes ...etc etc etc Anyway .. my new computer is enough to cheer me up i guess : D
I have an awesome new computer .... thats the good. I LOVE EEET!
Bad ... O.o So yeah when the crash of my old computer happened ... i tried all the means available to me to restore windows ...O.o it would not work ... not haveing any disc for windows didn't help ... i tried all the means possible since i had no access to a disc nor could get one ... But ...at least ... it wouldn't have made a difference ...cauz ...it was hardware related ... i static shocked on my harddrive 2 days before i rebooted and found out it won't boot anymore ...cauz i use to not shut my computer down often. O.o anyway i studied computer science i actually have a nice out of date degree in this feild :P mainly programming .. anyway ...you know circuit boards ...and static shocks don't mix at all. Now i dunno how on earth my touching the metal casing of the hard drive to check its temp ...somehow did this ... O.o it doesn't typically happen but O.o computer made the sound "PYOOOSH" ... windows session closed ...and my screen went in powersave mode ... indicating a power fluctuation happened ...O.o after this i spent two days using my computer and when i restarted it to give it a rest ... it didn't boot anymore ... "unmountable boot volume"
So i was hoping it was windows .. but it was more then that ... motherboards don't recognize this hdd anymore ...they recognize its 320 gigs ... but they can't see the name or type ..they can't even pickup the jumper if its master or slave ...so when windows starts ...it can't identify it ..an error occurs ...and the computer resets upon getting the error cauz its set to do so.
So i tried plugging it into my new computer ... this is when i found out the disc was the cauz ...when i plug it in ... as slave or any other setting ....the windows 7 of my new computer .... freezes on boot ... black screen keeps loading and eventually stops ..with that black screen, Bios doesn't detect it. at all .. i've tried both my old and a new IDE cable. my best guess is ... the static shock injured the little circuit board inside the HDD ... who knows
So i lost all my work ... O.o thank you ... forgetting to put my hand on the metal casing of the tower to ground myself. Also playing in it while its on wasn't very wise. So 15 years of work is gone ... lesson of this is backup your stuff when you get a chance on something. All i have left is what i had backed up on Dropbox and thats only my sketches in jpeg form...
Lost the new pic i was gonna post here the next day ..cauz for the first time i forgot to put the finished jpeg on dropbox like i always do. and this happened ..so its gone and it was all colored and nice :_; i also lost my logo. My brushes ...etc etc etc Anyway .. my new computer is enough to cheer me up i guess : D
As sad as it is that your computer did kick the bucket, i am still glad you have a new one that you can enjoy and have fun gaming on c= So thats at least some good news!
If that doesn't work...
It may cost you some money.. but there are ways.
From what you've said I think it might be worth looking into having it repaired.
This might help: http://www.wikihow.com/images/0/0f/FlowChart2.jpg
and hard drives can be carefully recovered even if they don't spin right...it just takes someone with serious gear and expertise...so save the hard drive just in case someone can help.
I know how awful it feels to loose several days of work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVB.....feature=fvwrel
Send it to me and I'll fix it. I guarantee I have wayy more weirder crap on my drives then yours.
And even if your computer is properly grounded it is possible that the high voltage spike will make it's way through , at least partially, through your computer's hardware circuitry before making it's way to the mains. Sometimes a ground cannot sink enough current due to the conductivity of the soil, distance from distribution panel where the ground is connected to neutral, and if there are any faults or broken wires in your home's electrical system. so the voltage potential remains high until all current has been grounded out. If your ground cannot sink the current the voltage spike will travel through your computer's circuitry because the case in theory is not as conductive. So spikes travel from the case to the neutral or negative wire on there way to find the earth ground in the process tearing through your hardware .
This could have been why your computer would not boot.
So i have no idea what happened to it. Perhaps the disc's circuit board and or chips (if they have some) were defective to begin with and crapped out. Its the first time i've ever heard of a HDD doing anything like this. Usually its old ones getting broken sectors and such.
I'd highly recommend you invest in a raid array so if one disk fails you can simply buy a replacment disk and sync it back up to the other 3 or 4 disk in the array. I'd also recommend you have a n electrician come out and inspect your outlets. Just to make sure they all are working properly and that they are grounded effectively. You will also want to invest in a surge protector Or even a sine wave modulator to have the optimum ac voltage, frequency, and ample sine wave shape which should look like a smooth parabola since the rounder and evenly shaped a sign wave is. The more efficient the power transformers are and the less energy is wasted in your computers power supply. C:.