Which Part of a Hard Drive Causes Blue Screen?

[mikail13]

Some bad hdd causes blue screen. WD and sometimes Samsung.
i have never seen on Seagate

i swap pcb of Samsung HD502hj but it useless.
i think bad Preamps cause blue screen and reset.

what do you think about it?

[rogfanther]

Blue Screen in windows is caused for a lot of reasons. In relation to the hdd, it may occur when the OS tries to read some important file ( the registry, some dll, etc ) and it fails, or reads partially, then the OS "bluescreens" to protect the rest of the system.

[mikail13]

Blue Screen in windows is caused for a lot of reasons. In relation to the hdd, it may occur when the OS tries to read some important file ( the registry, some dll, etc ) and it fails, or reads partially, then the OS "bluescreens" to protect the rest of the system.

you're right.

but i tried as a second hdd. windows was in a healhty different disk.

@Spildit

none of them. no need to recover data yet.
but the second PSU is good idea.. thanks..

Last edited by mikail13 on January 25th, 2018, 17:30, edited 1 time in total.

[rogfanther]

New windows versions ( 7, 8, 10 ) will try to read parts of the bad hdd and hang/blue screen as you saw. If you need to access it, use a windows XP installation, and refuse if prompted to run chkdsk . A linux boot disk could also be used.

Of course, it all depends on what is the problem with the hdd. If it is just something logical ( corrupt partition, for example ) you can read it. If it is something physical ( bad heads, defective board ) then results may vary.

[mikail13]

i don't need data.

i think hdd origin of blue screen is because of electrical problem.

it is in any operating system. XP, 7 i tried it.

also i try different PCB. but it's useless. drive have many bad sectors. RSC is very high.
maybe it head fatigue?

just want to know.