Laptop dead.......again
Posted by SwordkingX5 2 years ago
So yesterday around say 12pm my time my laptop blue screened twice, normally i can fix it with a quick power off and power on deal.
Not this time, this time it seems the hard drive itself crashed, making matters worse was it was stuck on 100% for 5 hours before I just shut it off while it was trying to reconstruct the drive.
No idea if it's truley dead or not, or if everything that was there is gone.
If it is then I'll still somewhat use it or try to use it for watching stuff online and uploading things until I can get a new one, which was my goal in the first place to replace it, this year it had been acting up a lot so it's gotta go.
I'll try to find one that's stronger than the last.
A problem I did have this year was it running out of memory, even though the hard drive was perfectly fine it would still run out of memory and need a system scan to clean out extra data, sometimes it would go weeks without an issie other times i'd need to do this every week, so i have no idea what's up with it.
I'll try taking it to someone who knows stuff and see what they say about it, as I'm not touching it as i have no idea how to fix it myself.
Posted by SilhouetteofKid 2 years ago Report
Damn, I know how it feels when your laptop just decides to quit on ya. Hopefully you can get that worked out.
Posted by kdzwitz 2 years ago Report
Get a harddrive enclosure, put the hard drive on it. Next put new or used(refurbished) harddrive, and install new OS on it. No need big size, just for temporary fix should be fine. And plug your harddrive enclosure on it, then it should have all your data. Probably your hard drive is already aging too old. It needs some rest. Or maybe try using OS installation and use startup repair or something before proceeding what i said before.
Posted by kdzwitz 2 years ago Report
harddrive enclosure for 2.5" HDDs are usually cheap like you can afford it just for $5 depending on the speed it offers.
Also if you dont want to find other harddrives as temporary fix, you maybe can ask a friend to have Windows PE for temporary OS (its not recommended to use as daily driver OS since it has so many limitations) put on a flashdrive.
Also go check your hard drive health using HDTune/HD Sentinel/CrystalDiskInfo or any hdd health check software. They're all free to use. If the Performance is still good but the health is not, go imediatelly swap your boot drive and use your current hard drive as external drive and backup your files. Once health is 0% there's a very little chance that it will be readable or even not detecting (only detecting empty hdd enclosure)
Posted by Moxxieasslover 2 years ago Report
My laptop do the same thing and my Hard drive die soooo.... maybe your laptop have a same problem
Posted by Moxxieasslover 2 years ago Report
i hope you can fix your laptop :)
Posted by Searinex 2 years ago Report
Blue screen = something is wrong, Turning off and on was just a bandaid.
Hard drives are wearable and only last around 5 years in portable devices like laptops and external drives(My Passport by WD, etc) because hard drives are not impact-resistant aka sudden movements damage hard drives regardless if the drive is on.
To check to see if you're data is still I recommend making a Linux USB. Download Linux Mint, format and write the image with Rufus using an empty USB stick (Everything will be deleted from the USB stick). Linux Mint has all the tools built in to check hard drive health (Disks App) and to check if your is data ok for transfer to a USB drive.
If Disks app says your hard drive has any number of bad sectors it's time to replace it.
On to how you fix this:
Buy a 2.5" SATA SSD, they're not that much now about $120CAD for a 1TB, 10000% more reliable because they are impact-resistant and also way faster.
Lookup a teardown guide for your laptop.
Grab some small screwdrivers and a guitar pick or credit card (or something like that) to open the laptop to change the drives.
Go to another computer with an empty USB stick (everything will be deleted off it) and download windows 10 and run the installer.
Plug the USB in the laptop and follow the installer.
Go to Ninite.com redownload basic programs.
Transfer data back to the computer from USB drive enclosure or from Linux backup from above.
Sorry for the wall of text but after you spend an afternoon working on this your computer will be working better than new (excluding the battery).
Posted by Searinex 2 years ago Report
Oh and also redownload your drivers. Windows updates will get most but all the drivers will be on the support website for your laptop brand (e.x. www.hp.com/support, support.lenovo.com, etc).
Posted by SwordkingX5 2 years ago Report
So i turned my laptop back on today to see if it still worked.
Now while it is working.
I used pc cleaner to check some stuff and something is using about 65 or 75% of the systems memory and i have no idea what's doing it nor will it tell me.
So for now until I get an expert to look at this I will keep it offline.
I know some of you have given suggestions on how to fix it, and that is great i do appreciate it, but i don't have any of that stuff nor do i know how to do any of it.
My schools and collage never taught my how to fix this shit, even when i took a course in computing.