Hard Drives
I haven’t been around much over the last week or so as I’ve been having some quite serious computer trouble. A week ago I bought a new hard drive, quite a large one, to replace my two smaller and much older hard drives. That didn’t seem too complex, I’ve installed hard drives before. Complex however, doesn’t seem a big enough word to describe the problems I’ve been having.
Never before has such a simple task lead to so many problems. Trying to add this new SATA drive has highlighted problems with my BIOS, PSU, SATA power connecters and revealed a fault on my fairly new motherboard which has litterally killed one of my old hard drives. Thankfully, it wasn’t my drive containing Windows. Instead, it was the larger of my two existing hard drives that contained all the files I regard as important enough to save, including work for university, various scripts and website related things (mostly for MyBB/MyBB Mods) and a large digital collection of music.
I’ve lost a lot of data on what was a perfectly good drive and a week later I’ve still been unable to get the computer fixed up and the new drive installed. Instead I’ve just been going around in circles. Tomorrow, I’m therefore going to do something I haven’t had to do before in the five years I’ve had my own computer…take it to a shop. I’ve spent so long trying to figure these problems out without any kind of luck that I just can’t bare to spend any more time on it. I’m getting tired and depressed and at times incredibly angry at how something so simple has become such a huge task. It frustrates me more that I built this system myself recently and know more about it than any other system I’ve owned, but it still hasn’t helped me solve these problems.
I’ve got to the point that I simply don’t know what to try next nor what to do to start getting things fixed. Every step I’ve taken in this scenario has sent me three steps further back. The first SATA drive didn’t work, so I sent it back and got another. It still doesn’t work. The old power supply was stretched to provide enough power. There’s now a 500 watt PSU in there and there are still problems. BIOS needed flashing to pickup the new hardware. It flashed successfully but still doesn’t work. I borrowed a brand new motherboard to use to test all the above things and see exactly where the major fault lies, but the motherboard is for a socket 754 CPU not a socket A. Additionally, I’ve lost nearly 100GB and still don’t have the new hard drive in place. I’m just worse off than when I set on this task and think it’s about time someone else had a look at the whole system, hopefully someone with a better patience span than me. It’ll mean me having to live on my laptop for a couple of days but I’m likely to go insane unless I give this a break and let someone else try.
Sorry for the blatent rant. I felt as though I needed that.