Laptop 1 Dell latitude e6400

Died on game slapped my lid down it made a funny beep then when I turned it on seen these…


https://imgur.com/2W8m4Fv
https://imgur.com/uG68QLt
https://imgur.com/CXD9f3I

Laptop 2 acer aspire v

Tried cleaning the fan I took the back off when I turned on I got this message

https://imgur.com/msXvPn4

Insight?
I tried asking a few hobby repairists but they just say its broken and theyll buy them so I feel like they just wanna rip me off

Well the first one does sound like a dead hard drive. Just replace the hard drive, install Windows and drivers etc.

The 2nd one just sound like you bumped the cable(s) going to the hard drive.

Im gonna have someone look at them both and see if they can fix em, i wonder why the hard drive would be dead on the dell though? all i did was slap it?

Hard drives can just... die. Inside a 1TB hard drive for example is 3 or 5 platters that spin at 7200 rpm with little to no tolerance. Sooner or later they all die.
That's one of the reasons they started making solid state drives (SSDs). No moving parts.


/e It could also just be loose cable(s) in both. For w/e reason, the operating system drive(s) are not being detected.

This post was edited by Ghot on Nov 11 2018 04:15pm

Seagate HDDs are the worst, avoid like the plague.

Did you check
The dilithium crystals
In the spacial matrix
Common failure of hdds

wut

Seagate and WD are the leading HDD manufacturers.

This post was edited by zell1luk on Nov 11 2018 07:35pm

for a 3tb model. Those are known to be shit from all companies.

If they are so bad, why are they used in tons of enterprise NAS applications?

This post was edited by zell1luk on Nov 11 2018 10:24pm

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html
thinking enterprise
=
consumer
el oh el
and whos using nas over san
in enteprise