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Possible hard drive failure after dust cleaning the CPU
It all started with my computer clocking out,now,i have a bad habit of leaving my computer on while i sleep,but the problem was,like always,too much dust because i hadnt cleaned it in a long while. I open the cpu and carefully clean the dust clumps with a toothpick like usual,and when i turn it on it says it cand find a hard drive unit in grey letters. This a normal issue i have after cleaning and i always fix it by reconnecting the cables behind the hard drive and restarting,rarely it takes more than one try. But this time it took two tries and turned on,but froze at start up after the explorer.exe stopped responding,i restart,and before the windows logo disappears when booting up it restarts itself,takes a long time to boot,and says it cant find the hard drive again. I go reconnect the cables and when i stand up to look at the screen ready to restart, the screen is all fuzzy like missingno,with a bunch of flashing colors,scared i restart,and the cpu turns on fine,but the monitor says no signal. I look down and the cooler is spinning fine,but it wont start up. I reconnect the monitor to see if thats the issue and nothing,i try turning it off for a few minutes and nothing,i try reconnecting the hard drive and nothing,the cpu turns on but it doesnt boot up,i even tried connecting the monitor with a hdmi cable but still no signal. Did i break my hard drive by not turning off the computer before disconnecting? I thought it was fine since it couldnt read it...Was i doing something totally stupid by reconnecting it in the first place?
I anxiously await assistance as im not even sure what to search on google. (And this forum has helped me a couple times in the past)