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Post Date: 2013-04-20
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I believe my hard drive is dead. A few weeks back, my UPS shutoff several times and dropped power to my PC. I think that damage the hard drive and now the PC can't complete a start up windows. I tried the "repair start-up" and that failed. My option is to buy a new drive and install it myself and hope by simply connect it everything will be solve. Then I'll have install windows. I could take a day off and drive up to San Jose and have Digital Storm bring it back to specs. Or find someone in Santa Clarita to do the same.

Suggestions or recommendations on the best approach ?
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Hi davep....    Have you tried plugging the sata cable from HDD into a different sata port on motherboard?    Most boards have both Intel and Marvell controllers with different colored sata port for each.     Its possible a controller or port itself failed..
Try another cable.

If thats not it, I would just do the new drive myself.    Lots quicker unless you suspect another problem from a power surge, etc.

Good luck.
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If I get a new hard drive what brands are comparable with digital storm.
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if ssd go with the Neutron GTX Series). if HDD go with a WD caviar black


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What a good size these days?
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it depends on what it is for.. OS and drivers? or games and media?.. I would put games and media on a 1tb Black Caviar WD and your OS and drivers on a SSD.
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I take the ssd drive is a susceptible to crashing like the mechanical HDD are? I like the ideas of use a solid state drive for the OS and drivers.

Once I install the ssd and the Hdd, and turn on the computer how will it know which one is the main on it will boot to? or is that taken when I reinstall windows and it asked what drive to save it to?
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Posts: 416 		  Quote Solidus1833 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 22 Apr 2013 at 8:35pm
As of late SSd's have come a looong way. But you dont Debug them like normal HDDs, you dont have to. But When it dies... its gone.. so either back it up, or store things that are easy to fix, like OS, and drivers.

You can go into the BIOS and pick your boot drive. If you want to make it simple just take out all drives, put in the one you want to be your OS/driver and just start your install, your comp will automatically make it your boot drive.

Thats is what i did with my current rig. I totally wiped a 500gb blue caviar WD, then Reinstalled my OS/drivers on it. It automatically was selected to be the BOOT. Then i added 2x 1TB black caviar's WD 1 for Steam and 1 for Origin. havnt had an issue since. you just need to remmber where you want to download things.
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If I make a simple swap of one HDD with the new HDD, will I have do screw around with the bios?
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If I were you. I would put just ur os on the new hdd. Then restart ur comp with just the new hdd installed. Hit f2 to get into bios to make sure the hdd is being picked up. Then u should be good.
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