Recent content by dhambel

To the rest of the community having the same issue I did: I found out that the PCB on the hard drive went bad. The hard drive would spin up, but the interface board would not connect to the motherboard (PCB and interface board are the same thing I believe). So if your hard drive spins up just...

Saga Lout, As this is a gaming PC, the files I lost were mostly installer packages. All of my important documents are backed up on my Google Drive. Just as a little update, I did buy a Seagate Firecuda 2TB yesterday, as we seemed to have ruled out the motherboard as the problem. I will...

Unable to access "2.0 TB Volume" Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/ubuntu/C49A9D9B9A9D8B16: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=999,gid=999" "/dev/sda2" "/media/ubuntu/C49A9D9B9A9D8B16"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system...

So after doing what you said, the system booted just fine into the bootable Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS live usb flash drive that I made. Is there any way I can test the sata ports to see if they are the culprit before I spend money on another hard drive? I used both my SATA cables but got the same...

Thanks! That sounds like a viable method, I will try it and report my results.

Hi Saga Lout, This computer has actually nothing of value to me on it. I use Google Drive to back up my important data and use spotify for my music. This machine is a gaming machine for the most part, and steam does of course have their steam cloud feature for backing up game saves. As far...

Hello, Recently, my hard drive has not been detected by my computer. I find that putting the SATA cable into another slot allows the BIOS to detect it, but only enough for the Windows logo to show up with the loading icon; after that, I get a blue screen with the frowny face, computer...