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If I'm not so wrong, my hdd is going to die. Right?

Is there anything that I can try besides switching the hdd?

If the HDD is dead how many skips on the water it is going to do? 4 or 5? /joke

(the image was when I was trying to run a live CD)

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UPDATE: Now it's clicking! It is officially dead...

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You can check your HDD without need of log in, as Mark Kirby pointed out. Just create a Live USB where you can install HDD checkers.

Create a Live USB

On windows I advise downloading Rufus USB Creator.

1- Open Rufus and select your USB stick in the 'Device' dropdown enter image description here

2- Click the CD Rom icon next to the 'FreeDOS' dropdown, then find your downloaded Ubuntu ISO and click 'Open' and then 'Start' enter image description here

3- Click 'Yes' when it asks to download Syslinux software enter image description here

4- Click 'OK' to write in ISO Image mode enter image description here

5- Confirm that your USB stick is selected and then 'OK' to continue enter image description here

6- When it is finished, just restart your computer and start using Ubuntu, or you can install Ubuntu enter image description here

7- Plug the USB into your laptop, and boot from USB. Click on "Try Ubuntu"

Check the HDD state

Quoted from @Oli's answer here:

For the desktop, you can use "Disk Utility" (aka palimpsest or gnome-disks depending on the Ubuntu release) for this.

For the command line, I suggest you install the smartmontools package and play around with smartctl. Eg:

sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda

Source: How to check the health of my hard drive and How to Create a bootable usb stick on Windows

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  • Last update: Hdd is truly dead – SuaMae Jul 27 '16 at 15:07
  • I dont think editing the answer only with the links is a good idea, if the links gets down there no answer – kek Jul 29 '16 at 06:35
  • @wjandrea please don't do such edits. i) removing clear instructions (even if they are specific to a single OS) and replacing them with a link makes the answer not an answer. ii) copying content from another answer on Ask Ubuntu is not plagiarism. Answers posted here are free to be copied and reused. Especially since kek_kek had included attribution. – terdon Jul 29 '16 at 08:54
  • @terdon I'm a bit conffused. Yesterday I got downvoted as hell for "plagiarism" another ask ubuntu answer, where I just checked the commands from another very old answer. What should I do then? I always try to check the links and commands for errors, but when I get downvoted for plagiarism, I feel it's not fair. – kek Jul 29 '16 at 08:58
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    @kek_kek what? Where? And I never said you plagiarized! On the contrary, I was telling wjandrea who edited your answer that copying (with attribution) from another Ask Ubuntu answer is not plagiarism. – terdon Jul 29 '16 at 09:02
  • No, not you, some downvoted I got yesterday on an answer. – kek Jul 29 '16 at 09:04
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    Ah, yes. Well, that's different. If you actually post the exact same answer as someone else, you should i) put it in a quote block and clearly state that it isn't your work or, more likely, ii) vote to close the question as a duplicate of the one whose answer you copied. I admit I hadn't realized your were copying every word from the other answer! – terdon Jul 29 '16 at 09:06
  • How can I do that quote? – kek Jul 29 '16 at 09:08
  • @wjandrea, my point about copying stands but I hadn't realized that kek_kek had actually copied every word! That's not nice, no. Such quotes should be clearly marked by putting them in a quote block. – terdon Jul 29 '16 at 09:08
  • @kek_kek use the formatting tools. – terdon Jul 29 '16 at 09:08
  • @terdon understood – wjandrea Jul 29 '16 at 14:38
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Before thinking it's a dead drive wih firm conviction, go for the cheaper possibility and replace the cable. If that works you saved yourself from having to buy a new drive at the expense of a fraction of the cost for a new drive.

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