What the fuck happened to my computer just now?

[Supertoaster]

About an hour ago I turn on my computer and it's working as usual for about half an hour. Suddenly Steam freezes and I figure "lol steam" and attempt to ctrl alt delete it but the menu thing that pops up on Windows 7 when you press it doesn't respond. I do a hard reboot because I waited about 3 minutes with nothing. It fails to fully load my desktop and only shows the taskbar. I restart again and now it wont even get passed the Welcome screen. It does a few times but then gets stuck on a black screen after. Safe mode doesn't even work. I fixed it by doing a destructive recovery. Does anyone know what the fuck happened? It's working now but I want to know what it was.

[Deathie]

Failing HDD?

[Cake Faice]

Failing HDD?

If it's a Western Digital, expect it happen again.

But this time, you'd be fucked no matter what and require a new HDD.

[Osme]

Failing HDD?

if it was a failing hdd i would except more than what he said happened... Sounds more like a corrupted file than a failing hdd

[Tomcat]

if it was a failing hdd i would except more than what he said happened... Sounds more like a corrupted file than a failing hdd

Naaa, If it was a corrupted file some non serious sit would happen.


IMO you need to get your ass on newegg and go buy a new Seagate or some shit

[Osme]

Naaa, If it was a corrupted file some non serious sit would happen.


IMO you need to get your ass on newegg and go buy a new Seagate or some shit

>corrupt hal.dll
Not serious or anything? ._.
And seagate? Really tomcat? >:c

[Tomcat]

>corrupt hal.dll
Not serious or anything? ._.
And seagate? Really tomcat? >:c

I was just naming a random hdd brand

besides

Have super try to reinstall windows or recover

if he cant then you know we have a problem

EDIT: Read that he recoved, Stil should get a new hdd for teh lolz

[ledjohnny]

Most likely it isn't the HDD, I figure it's what deg said. Corruption of files and the like.

[Peetah]

Calm down men.
It can be either or.

There are disk SMART checkers if your worried.
Thoes are quite accurate.

[Supertoaster]

Most likely it isn't the HDD, I figure it's what deg said. Corruption of files and the like.

I think it was just some file that got fucked over. But it was fine before yesterday, the last thing I did to it was a defrag with Smart Defragger (and I only had 0.8% fragmentation). And it started up and booted fine for about an hour and a half until it froze. Maybe the comp actually froze and then me doing a hard reboot corrupted something?


im still thinking of getting a new HDD. I saw a 1TB Samsung one. Also if anyone wants to help me find one. Only Seagate or Samsung and has to be 3gb/s (motherboard doesn't support any higher) and has to be at least 1TB