Hi all,
A few hours ago I was a happy young man, shooting Terrorists and rescueing hostages on Counter-Strike... And then my pc rebooted. Just like that, no bluescreen whatsoever (option to automatically reboot on BSOD is delected on my system). Actually pc didn't reboot in the full meaning of the word. It went down.
I had a look in the BIOS and the first thing I noticed was a higher system and proc temperature. System was about 45° and proc about 65° (those values arent out of the ordinary, but they are higher then the usual values on my system)
BIOS still detected my HD's and DVD/CD drives so I opened up the hood, and switched it off for about 30 mins to cool it off.
After half hour I tried again:
"Windows cannot start becouse the file c:\windows\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupted"
Well, thats a piece of cake right? Boot from CD and hit "R" for recovery console, right? Wrong. Recovery console coudn't find the XP installation that I wanted to log on to.
I tried booting again, and I got stuck looking at a black screen right after OS selection. (Multiboot, XP & 2000)
After that I tried Win 2000 and it booted fine.
I am running CHDSK now.... and all I get is this:
File record segment [number] is unreadable
[number] started @ 211 and its gone past 40333.
The second partition cannot start CHKDSK with error:
'Unreadable master file table. CHKDSK aborted'
Does it mean that:
a. the disk is dead
b. the disk isnt dead, but the files on it
Anyways, what coud couse this kind of failure?
I didn't check with Maxtor yet, but how about warranty? (the disk is less then 6 months old)
Please help.
Greetz
Lukas
A few hours ago I was a happy young man, shooting Terrorists and rescueing hostages on Counter-Strike... And then my pc rebooted. Just like that, no bluescreen whatsoever (option to automatically reboot on BSOD is delected on my system). Actually pc didn't reboot in the full meaning of the word. It went down.
I had a look in the BIOS and the first thing I noticed was a higher system and proc temperature. System was about 45° and proc about 65° (those values arent out of the ordinary, but they are higher then the usual values on my system)
BIOS still detected my HD's and DVD/CD drives so I opened up the hood, and switched it off for about 30 mins to cool it off.
After half hour I tried again:
"Windows cannot start becouse the file c:\windows\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupted"
Well, thats a piece of cake right? Boot from CD and hit "R" for recovery console, right? Wrong. Recovery console coudn't find the XP installation that I wanted to log on to.
I tried booting again, and I got stuck looking at a black screen right after OS selection. (Multiboot, XP & 2000)
After that I tried Win 2000 and it booted fine.
I am running CHDSK now.... and all I get is this:
File record segment [number] is unreadable
[number] started @ 211 and its gone past 40333.
The second partition cannot start CHKDSK with error:
'Unreadable master file table. CHKDSK aborted'
Does it mean that:
a. the disk is dead
b. the disk isnt dead, but the files on it
Anyways, what coud couse this kind of failure?
I didn't check with Maxtor yet, but how about warranty? (the disk is less then 6 months old)
Please help.
Greetz
Lukas