Changed CPU now i get lots of BSOD's Help

[Chewie]

Actually, it wasn't us guys, it was just me. It is definitely the hard drive, though.

What to do?
Buy another 200GB drive, transfer what you can, reformat or kill the master boot record, swap out and sell one of them.

Anything else?

[DarkClown12]

lets looks at each idea.
1: buy another 200G drive : don't have the cash to get one right now.
2: reformat this one; i will lose all my data so i don't want to do that.
3: kill the master boot record: if i do this i have two question how do i do it and also will i lose my data?

[Chewie]

lets looks at each idea.
1: buy another 200G drive : don't have the cash to get one right now.
2: reformat this one; i will lose all my data so i don't want to do that.
3: kill the master boot record: if i do this i have two question how do i do it and also will i lose my data?

Yes you'll lose the data.

Let's look at the facts:
- you have a dying hard drive.
- you have stuff on it you want to keep
- you haven't got anywhere to put that stuff
- you don't have the money to buy something to put that stuff on

After consideration of available facts, the conclusion I have come to is thus: you're gonna lose everything in the near future when the hard drive fails completely.

[Peerzy]

you guys told me it was a bad h.d. , so there you go.

Read above, a member told you your heat sink was the wrong one way before we told you your hdd could be fucked. Also if you had noticed we are not one person. One person told you that your heat sink was wrong and another totally different person told you it is possibly your hard drive, and this is a totally different person mocking you.

[DarkClown12]

I see all of your points and should take the harddrive back.... so wut is fastest way 2 format all data?

[Peerzy]

DarkClown, CHANGE YOUR FUCKING HEATSINK

[lynx]

@Peerzy, he didn't know what a Northbridge heatsink was, so he quoted his cpu HSF. That's not the same thing as having the wrong heatsink.

@Darkclown12, what is all this data you want to save? Music? Video?
Have you got a DVD burner? If yes, back it up to DVD.
Otherwise, These people can probably help you with backups: music or video

[Peerzy]

@Peerzy, he didn't know what a Northbridge heatsink was, so he quoted his cpu HSF. That's not the same thing as having the wrong heatsink.

Ahhh okay, either way might be a good idea to change back to default just to check, i'd rather spend 10 minutes checking all my parts than lose 200gb worth of stuff and £80 getting a new hard drive.

[skrewler]

First thing I'd do is run memtest and make sure my memory hasn't gone bad for whatever reason..

[Virtualbody1234]

You should run drive diagnostics to be sure that the HDD is at fault. Go to the makers web site and look for the free test (usually a diskette). For example... Maxtor test software is called Powermax. Use the correct one for your make.