Posted December 15, 2015
It is a laptop HDD. SATA I think. So, that resumes it all.
To make things even more clear, I was playing some games yesterday night, (San Andreas, Windows 10, lots of bugs) and the game freeze. Kinda expected to happen in modern Windows versions. So I shutdown the computer via CMD. After the "Shutting down" windows message, the screen goes black, and after some time in black it actually shut down. Yesterday I wasn't in the mood to wait so I keep the power button pressed until it goes down.
My surprise came when I turn On the laptop again... There appears a BIOS warning me about an HDD malfunction. I analyze the HDD trough BIOS and it found that the HDD is damaged :'(
BUT, Windows does load, always start giving me a warning message about an HDD malfunction, suggesting me to make an urgent data backup and that stuff.
So far, I have like 1 hour making some data backups, and the computer hasn't freeze, stop working or something simirlar; it is working just fine. in fact, I am writing this lines in my laptop, no problems so far.
So, all this reduces to: Is my HDD damaged, or is some component in the Motherboard (The one that checks the HDD) who get damaged? How can I check what is actually damaged? And if my HDD is damaged, will a low level format fix it or LLF only works for an old mechanic IDE HDD?
If someone knows a good forum where I can get help, I will be more than grateful to get that site address.
Thanks in advance!
To make things even more clear, I was playing some games yesterday night, (San Andreas, Windows 10, lots of bugs) and the game freeze. Kinda expected to happen in modern Windows versions. So I shutdown the computer via CMD. After the "Shutting down" windows message, the screen goes black, and after some time in black it actually shut down. Yesterday I wasn't in the mood to wait so I keep the power button pressed until it goes down.
My surprise came when I turn On the laptop again... There appears a BIOS warning me about an HDD malfunction. I analyze the HDD trough BIOS and it found that the HDD is damaged :'(
BUT, Windows does load, always start giving me a warning message about an HDD malfunction, suggesting me to make an urgent data backup and that stuff.
So far, I have like 1 hour making some data backups, and the computer hasn't freeze, stop working or something simirlar; it is working just fine. in fact, I am writing this lines in my laptop, no problems so far.
So, all this reduces to: Is my HDD damaged, or is some component in the Motherboard (The one that checks the HDD) who get damaged? How can I check what is actually damaged? And if my HDD is damaged, will a low level format fix it or LLF only works for an old mechanic IDE HDD?
If someone knows a good forum where I can get help, I will be more than grateful to get that site address.
Thanks in advance!