I know this isn't a computer forum, but I don't want to post on a forum where I don't really know who's who. Anyway, I think I fried two different hard drives last night. My computer (PC) was running just fine, restarted it, and then it froze up for a while and after a few minutes a prompt comes up on the windows screen saying "primary master fail". I turned the PC off, took out that hard drive and put in an old one I had laying around that already had WIndows XP on it. Fired it up, and no problemo. So then I figured I would hook up the hard drive that failed as a slave and see if I could salvage any data off it. It starts up no problem and I can access data off the bad drive. I start copying data from one drive to another and after 2 minutes the PC freezes. Restart.....transfer again....freezes after 2 minutes. Anyway, I did this until I salvaged everything I wanted. Restarted one last time then a new prompt comes up saying.....Primary master fail again! I turned the computer off and went to unplug the hard drives and the master was hotter than hell.
Does anyone know what has gone wrong? My first guess would be the power supply but I can't tell. I suppose it could be the motherboard too, but now I'm freaked out that I have potentially zapped two hard drives in the course of an hour. I think I might just go out and get a new power supply AND motherboard but I wanted to hear some suggestions first. Thanks!
Oh and to top it all off, I had one of my guitars resting up against my desk behind me while I was fiddling with the computer and when I turned around in my chair, I smacked it a little and it went sliding off the side of the desk at great velocity and landed flush against my wood floor. It hit hard and cracked the neck straight through. FUCK! It didn't snap in two, but its cracked pretty bad. I'll have to take a picture so you guys can see if it can be glued back or if I need a new neck. What a shitcatastrohpe of a night.
Does anyone know what has gone wrong? My first guess would be the power supply but I can't tell. I suppose it could be the motherboard too, but now I'm freaked out that I have potentially zapped two hard drives in the course of an hour. I think I might just go out and get a new power supply AND motherboard but I wanted to hear some suggestions first. Thanks!
Oh and to top it all off, I had one of my guitars resting up against my desk behind me while I was fiddling with the computer and when I turned around in my chair, I smacked it a little and it went sliding off the side of the desk at great velocity and landed flush against my wood floor. It hit hard and cracked the neck straight through. FUCK! It didn't snap in two, but its cracked pretty bad. I'll have to take a picture so you guys can see if it can be glued back or if I need a new neck. What a shitcatastrohpe of a night.
