Hard Drive Problem?

[kgbaseball]

Alright, so I started up my computer last night (it was working fine just a few hours beforehand) and it got past the motherboard screen no problem. But after that, the screen was just black. No more texts, no more anything. I figured it was just an anomoly and rebooted. Same thing.

I just left it and decided to work on it this morning. I decided it was probably a hard drive problem since the computer stopped working once the Windows screen should have come up. I have run a bunch of tests and looked at everything I could find on the subject, but still can't figure it out. Here's what I've done:

- switched out IDE cables. Made the motherboard screen run faster, but still didn't load Windows.
- switched out power supplies. No change.
- ran checkdisk from a DOS prompt. Said hard drive was error free, but still didn't load Windows.
- used Windows 7 bootdisk to try and repair whatever could have been wrong. Repair processes didn't find anything wrong.
- ran a master boot record check. Didn't find anything.
- downloaded and ran an AVG antivirus boot disk. Checked out clean.
- loaded my hard drive into my parent's computer. Worked great. I could search through the entire hard drive without a problem. No files were missing.

The hard drive seems to be functioning fine - it's spinning and makes all the normal noises when I hold it, I can feel it working properly.

So what the hell is the problem? I guess reformatting wouldn't be the end of the world since I don't have much of anything worth saving, but I'd obviously like to avoid that.

I can't start Windows in safe mode because I can't get that far in the startup process.

Any ideas, computer geeks?

[dtfan70]

It could be a motherboard problem, since I guess your screen goes absolutely black? no signal for video output? can you see your bios setup in your monitor?

[NathanBent]

Sounds like it could be the harddrive, although it could be other things too. What I would do is (if you can) plug the harddrive from you parents computer into yours. If it loads, or gets farther than it did then it would probably be the harddrive. If you cant do that, I would find a geeky friend who could analyze your harddrive and look for errors, but that would take longer