Its not been a good week for me. First my 500gb external hardrive in a caddie stopped working ( this has all my work fies on) then on Thursday my pc booted up as nornmal allowed me to read a few emails then froze. It wouldn't reboot.
It was running XP but with issues of it not being supported I installed Unbuntu 16.04 (32 bit) on the same drive earlier in the week and in the same partition. I suspected hardrive failure as I could hear loud clicking so changed the hardrive for a cloned one. This wouldn't boot either, screen said no boot media. I tried a second cloned hardrive but with the same results-. Can a virus do this? I wouldn't have thought so but just wondering!
Bought an external caddie and tested all 3 hardrives on my laptop. The first one has definately failed (western Digital 200GB), now no clicking but no files either. The other 2 hardrives are showing all files. So if these won't boot either the desktop computer is at fault or the boot sectors have been corrupted.
Anyone any ideas?
It was running XP but with issues of it not being supported I installed Unbuntu 16.04 (32 bit) on the same drive earlier in the week and in the same partition. I suspected hardrive failure as I could hear loud clicking so changed the hardrive for a cloned one. This wouldn't boot either, screen said no boot media. I tried a second cloned hardrive but with the same results-. Can a virus do this? I wouldn't have thought so but just wondering!
Bought an external caddie and tested all 3 hardrives on my laptop. The first one has definately failed (western Digital 200GB), now no clicking but no files either. The other 2 hardrives are showing all files. So if these won't boot either the desktop computer is at fault or the boot sectors have been corrupted.
Anyone any ideas?
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