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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](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/203101). 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](http://askubuntu.com/help/formatting). – 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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