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HDD Dieing
I got a new system around a month ago now (specs at the bottem of the page), and everything was working perfectly up until I booted her up today after classes. I came home, started the system up and waited for windows to load...I waited and waited and waited and finally after around 10 mins (Seriously) I finally was able to log into my account. Now the hard drive is a 80gb Maxtor SATA drive and has been partitioned into 3 logical drives, my Sys one, Programs, and Storage. I was thinking head crash but it still works, just VERY slow. I took off the Swap file (I have a gb of ram so things still run ok) but even opening notepad takes around 30 seconds. So after this I was thinking, ahh well probably just a virus or some retarded thing so I went into Windows Setup to see if I could just reinstall windows and then install a virus scanner. No luck. It gets to the point of "Finding previous versions of windows" and hard locks.
My question is do any of you know of a reason that my hdd would just die like this? And if so any suggestions on how I can go about getting my data back (all 50-70gb)
Athlon 2100+ @ 2.4GHZ
Abit NF7-S /w sound storm
1gb Kingston HyperX
Radeon 9800 PRO
80gb Maxtor SATA
ATAPI CD-RW
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