JacksonVFR
Technical User
Ok guys, I'm using my "trusty" backup computer from hell to post this. I started up my main computer today and heard a loud spinning. Thinking it was a clogged fan I peered into the side clear window and saw one of my two Maxtor 80GB hard drives releasing a yellow-orange glow. I quickly hit my surge switch and turn everything off.
Windows had been loading and all, which is on the second drive. Saddened, I unplug the toasted drive and try my master by itself only to discover the same mysterious loud spinning and that it is yet another non-working drive. I still don't know if it was my fan or drive making the initial noise. My question is what could cause such a problem?
I used the hard drive from this backup computer in the main and it began to load fine. The case fan is also now fine. I tried running the non-burn-to-a-crisp drive in this backup computer, but it is completely dead, not a sound.
My biggest fear is that another component could be causing failures, like my power supply? I hope this is not the case and that I just need to get a new hard drive. Most of my data was backed up, so I'm lucky there. Just mad to lose two hard drives in the process.
Windows had been loading and all, which is on the second drive. Saddened, I unplug the toasted drive and try my master by itself only to discover the same mysterious loud spinning and that it is yet another non-working drive. I still don't know if it was my fan or drive making the initial noise. My question is what could cause such a problem?
I used the hard drive from this backup computer in the main and it began to load fine. The case fan is also now fine. I tried running the non-burn-to-a-crisp drive in this backup computer, but it is completely dead, not a sound.
My biggest fear is that another component could be causing failures, like my power supply? I hope this is not the case and that I just need to get a new hard drive. Most of my data was backed up, so I'm lucky there. Just mad to lose two hard drives in the process.