That's strange. For the BIOS to show up you doesn't even need to have a hard drive in your computer. Hard to believe that it' s a hard drive related problem. You can't even start your SETUP BIOS when the problem happens?
Some computers, depending on the brand, have a tool for diagnostics. For example, Dell computers has a boot option called Diagnostics/tests. It will run several hardware tests. If this is not your case, you can check some specific tool for that. You could download an iso and boot your computer using a cd or usb device to run this diagnostics. Ex: 1- http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd 2- http://www.gtopala.com/ 3- http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Well, again, that´s strange. Good luck and let us know about any tests you run there. ;] <http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd> Em terça-feira, 8 de julho de 2014, Stephen Benoit (Linux) < [email protected]> escreveu: > Hi, Ravnox. > > > I have this really weird problem. The brief version is that copying > > files from Linux to a Windows drive is "corrupting" the drive and I > > can't even see the BIOS screen on startup, it just hangs there. I need > > to connect the drive through a USB enclosure and wipe out the partition > > to be able to boot again. > > ... [snip]... > > Regarding the hardware, I suggest checking the health of the hard disk > using the smartctl utility under Linux (assuming spinning platters, not > SSD). > > e.g.: > # smartctl -a /dev/sda > > ... with an eye open for logged SMART messages or parameters that look > off, such as: > Reallocated_Sector_Ct (ideally 0), > Seek_Error_Rate (ideally 0), and similarly for > Offline_Uncorrectable and > UDMA_CRC_Error_Count. > > This will at least serve to show that the HDD on-board monitoring has > nothing special to say, independently of the motherboard BIOS or HDD > enclosure. > > If the HDD looks healthy, I would want to rule out a faulty partition > table: are writes being sent to the correct sectors? (2048 vs 512 byte > sectors, GUID Partition Table vs x86 boot sector partition table, etc.) > > BTW, check your power connections and use a fresh cable (SATA or IDE, > etc). If it worked reasonably well in an enclosure (with its own power > supply) but not on your PC's power supply, perhaps the hard disk is more > of a power hog than expected. Believe it or not, this happened to me > twice: the first was a weak power supply, the second was the hard disk > starting to fail and drawing more power. > > If your BIOS can't get started, either there is an electrical fault or > there is something amiss with the boot sector on the main HDD. Can your > motherboard give you a POST code (e.g. beeps) to indicate how far along > the boot went? > > Good luck, let us know how it works out. > > Best regards, > > Stephen Benoit > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://bureau.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >
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