So I've made this paranoid habit of checking the event log on my laptop every 3-4 days and I noticed that the Disk Error 11 kept coming up. It was for harddisk 0. I literally spent hrs online trying to figure out which exactly would be 0. Turns out it was apparently iso files on my laptop trying to work or something (Don't quote me on that because now I'm certain that its wrong).
Anyways I got worried so I got some Harddisk Monitoring and scanning software, and ran scans on my harddisk and there were no errors at all in the SMART scan's and I used 2 different programs just to make sure.
So while I was doing my work today I realized I felt like the CPU was running a bit higher than it should have and that may be due to the fact that I hadn't restarted in a few days and probably had some background stuff running that I wasn't even aware of. Instead of just using taskmanager to check I opted to restart.
And when I did the blue screen appeared. And not the typical one with some error code but rather just a blank blue. After some goggling on the ipad i figured out it was due to a harddisk problem. Seeing as I couldn't do anything but access the bios and not even start in safe mode I opened up my laptop and took the harddisk out and (this is probably awful but if anyone grew up with the oldschool NES you blew on the game to make it work--force of habit, thats exactly what I did) Plugged it back in and restarted. This time it actually went to diagnosing than the blue screen that asks if I want to restart or go into advance options. I clicked restart and not one time since has the hard disk been detected again.
Now one thing I did notice was that my fan is making a weird sound, so I'm going to open that open and clean it, but I'd just like some advice on what to do exactly. At the moment my harddisk is in a static free bag in my freezer, and I have this feeling this is due to a fan failure rather than actual harddisk issue seeing as I just ran the smart scan and other tools not even 3 days prior.
Do I get the new harddisk? Could this be due the fan failing and my laptop trying to 'protect' me? And how do I know if this is a cable problem, harddisk issue, motherboard issue etc. Googling can be so so bad. =/
Thank you and have a great day!
Anyways I got worried so I got some Harddisk Monitoring and scanning software, and ran scans on my harddisk and there were no errors at all in the SMART scan's and I used 2 different programs just to make sure.
So while I was doing my work today I realized I felt like the CPU was running a bit higher than it should have and that may be due to the fact that I hadn't restarted in a few days and probably had some background stuff running that I wasn't even aware of. Instead of just using taskmanager to check I opted to restart.
And when I did the blue screen appeared. And not the typical one with some error code but rather just a blank blue. After some goggling on the ipad i figured out it was due to a harddisk problem. Seeing as I couldn't do anything but access the bios and not even start in safe mode I opened up my laptop and took the harddisk out and (this is probably awful but if anyone grew up with the oldschool NES you blew on the game to make it work--force of habit, thats exactly what I did) Plugged it back in and restarted. This time it actually went to diagnosing than the blue screen that asks if I want to restart or go into advance options. I clicked restart and not one time since has the hard disk been detected again.
Now one thing I did notice was that my fan is making a weird sound, so I'm going to open that open and clean it, but I'd just like some advice on what to do exactly. At the moment my harddisk is in a static free bag in my freezer, and I have this feeling this is due to a fan failure rather than actual harddisk issue seeing as I just ran the smart scan and other tools not even 3 days prior.
Do I get the new harddisk? Could this be due the fan failing and my laptop trying to 'protect' me? And how do I know if this is a cable problem, harddisk issue, motherboard issue etc. Googling can be so so bad. =/
Thank you and have a great day!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1