RE: Help: Possible Hardware Failure
October 30, 2021 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2021 at 5:40 pm by vulcanlogician.)
Noice! This was exactly the type of help I needed/wanted. Looking into disk cloning. I lost my code that I had when I purchased windows 10. I don't know if I can recover it somehow. But it's looking like if I have to buy software to clone the drive, I may as well try to just nab the important files off it and reinstall windows on a new drive (as some recommended).
As for the "grinding"... it might just be the fan. But there are worrying sounds coming from it, especially when I boot up. And I know the drive didn't always make those sounds. My computer is old. I recently added 12 GB of Ram and a graphics card (well... 5-6 months ago). I did see that my power supply was less than recommended when I put in the video card, but everything else was up to par as far as I could see. My processor barely made it iirc. Until now, the thing purred like a kitten. I made doubly sure everything was compatible when I purchased the new hardware. The only oops was the power supply.
Having just done the water heater thing and with holidays on the horizon, I don't have the dough for a new system. But I'm willing to get a new hard drive and power supply if that will fix things temporarily.
Like, I'm trying to fix this for under $100. And hopefully make my current setup last another year or two.
edit: I installed 12 GB of Ram, not MB as I said pre-edit.
As for the "grinding"... it might just be the fan. But there are worrying sounds coming from it, especially when I boot up. And I know the drive didn't always make those sounds. My computer is old. I recently added 12 GB of Ram and a graphics card (well... 5-6 months ago). I did see that my power supply was less than recommended when I put in the video card, but everything else was up to par as far as I could see. My processor barely made it iirc. Until now, the thing purred like a kitten. I made doubly sure everything was compatible when I purchased the new hardware. The only oops was the power supply.
Having just done the water heater thing and with holidays on the horizon, I don't have the dough for a new system. But I'm willing to get a new hard drive and power supply if that will fix things temporarily.
Like, I'm trying to fix this for under $100. And hopefully make my current setup last another year or two.
edit: I installed 12 GB of Ram, not MB as I said pre-edit.
