Bros, I screwed up.... I was ending my night yesterday after hard day's work. Turned off the pc and thought to try out my new arrived casing fan (something to relax with).. Connected it, boot up. The fan's LED flicked, and then looked like it was going to die. And suddenly saw a very brief BSOD blue screen before entering windows, and then pc auto-restarted.

Tried booting into safe mode, and brief BSOD again, and restarted. Happened twice. Then suddenly can't load anymore.

Now, no matter whichever option I choose in Safe Mode, it goes to this screen....





So so tired. Sigh. Last week already beed a bad week, and this happens. Really tired.

It can't be that the new casing fan did this , right?



... Anyway,

1) I tried booting from Windows USB to "Recover/Repair", but it says cannot be repaired.

2) I swapped SATA cables with my secondary hdd, but same thing.

3) This morning, I tried putting my Main windows HDD into a external HDD enclosure. And managed to load it and access it in my laptop. I quickly backup my work files first into my laptop.


- Question is now........ Is there any way I can repair/reinsert those missing files , using my laptop here ?
With what I have now, is there any way to repair/recover my hdd's issue?
Or is the only option to Reformat?

🙏 🙏 🙏

Thank you for sharing this! Somehow didn't find this on YouTube.

I am also reading up about using Command Prompt to do some things (haven't fully read all yet), and you posted this.

Hope it works. Because mine is Windows 7 , not Windows 10. Will try and feedback here again

If you're able to boot up properly after doing those steps above, check your HDD for bad sectors.

CHKDSK C: /F /R /X

Tried the bootrec . Didn't work ..

Now it comes to the same screen, same error number , but with different info:

Ïnfo: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.


Tried some other recovery/repair options in the Windows USB, like "Scandisk" .. But doesn't work.

Yes it can, from a few possibilities
1. You plugged a fan that requires higher AMP than what the motherboard can supply. For example, you plugged a fan that requires 1A but the motherboard can only supply 0.5A, which will fry something on the motherboard
2. You plugged the fan into the wrong header on the motherboard. I.E. you plugged it into the audio or USB header on the motherboard
3. You plugged the fan to the correct fan header, but the wrong orientation

I plugged it exactly as my previous fan.. They are the same models. Even now, both fans work properly, when turning on the PC.

Just that there are these errors now..

Is there any way I can find out if i did fry anything? (i will Google after this too), but it would be nice to hear your opinion too. 🙌 Thank you!

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I ended up formatting my pc . :/ Too much stress, decided to just backup and format. Thank you again guys, you helped alot !