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I cleaned out my alt pc a couple of days ago at a buddies house, then left it in my car for two days. I was about 0 degrees here in MN, and now, my comp freezes when loading windows. Is there a known connection between temp and HDD failure?

 

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did you try reformatting? also is it possible you bumped the drive while transporting it? *dropping the case*

 

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i thought that sub zero temps could damage a hdd.

 

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run an HD diagnostic tool or something

 

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is there a bootable test I can run, and no I haven't tried reformatting, becuase I was trying to avoid losing all my files.

 

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what brand HD?

 

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it is a maxtor 7200 ide.

what is really odd, I reformated the HDD, and attempted to do a fresh install, and after it reformated and loaded the setup files, it froze in the exact same place. The only thing I can think about is that there is a bad sector or something that a reformat cannot fix. what do you think?

 

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run a diagnostic program, but yes, that sounds like a bad sector or something

 

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Run scandisk or something like it.

 

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can you repair that? or is it toast?

know any good 3rd party diagnostic software that would work on a maxtor that is windows bases?

 

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jcw122

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dudes...low temps like that will make the HD disks CONTRACT!!!

 

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yeah probably dead, go to the maxtor website they have a diagnostic tool on there site.

 

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yeah, but that one isn't windows based, and I don't have a floppy drive on my comp....

 

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well then there is UBCD (ultimate boot CD), that has various disk diagnostic tools as well

 

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if it freezes in the same place even after a format it might not be the hdd. it could be a piece of hardware failing when windows tries to load the drivers for that particular item. take everythign out of the system except cpu hdd 1 stick of ram and no optical devices if u dotn have to. then if it craps out try diff stick of ram. if it works start addign pieces till it dies then u narrowed it down to whats bad