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Question

My Laptop is not supporting any kind of harddisk

Apr 22, 2019 10:18PM PDT

When i turn on my samsung R439 laptop it turns off automatically after few seconds.The laptop service man checked my harddisk,It was ok.then he tried a new harddisk for my laptop.But the problem remained same.
Then I tried a live USB linux mint.With the pendrive my Laptop runs well.I can also access the harddisk data from live linux.But with any kind of harddisk it is not running.What is my laptop's problem.please, Can anyone suggest me what should i do??

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Re: hard disk
Apr 23, 2019 12:19AM PDT

What exactly did he do when he "tried a new harddisk". I mean, he had to install Windows on it, so it's interesting to know when exactly that failed.

Anyway, it might be time to try a new motherboard or a new laptop.

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I want to know more.
Apr 23, 2019 8:38AM PDT

I've seen this happen with a blown OS on the HDD. Since the owner usually doesn't backup our solution is to pop in a new HDD (today we use SSDs most of the time) then a quick install of Windows or Linux to the drive. 99% of the time the machine boots on the new drive.

This is me writing it is likely there was some user error here but it doesn't mean there wasn't. You can only tell by doing this work yourself.

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Ditto
Apr 23, 2019 12:05PM PDT