OEM Hardrive Starting To Fail, Replace Or Buy New Laptop Have Asus X555LAB

[BucketBack]

Laptop will be 2 years old on Black Friday, has windows 10 and whatever else they load in. Nothing special saved in pics.
I don't play games on it, just forums, shopping and you tube videos and email
This was a cheap budget laptop and looking for something similar if I do replace
Ideas?

[Ricekila]

Save a bunch of time & heart ache -- Replace the drive now -- because you will need to down the road -- and how much info will be lost then ?

The last time mine started to act up -- I had it replaced with a 1 terabyte drive -----

All cleaned up & oodles of future memory --

P/S -- I also kept windows 7 --

[juskom95]

Hard drives are cheap, under $70 unless you're going for something special.

What's the laptop model?

[Innkeeper]

I have one I bought when going over to the Middle East in 2010 an HP envy 17 used for gaming and everything else still going but I did add a solid state drive for a boot drive and kept windows 7.
I also have a low end HP I bought 3 years ago for school since the other is a power hog. Sadly it has windows 10 but has done a great job and no issues yet, I paid like 190-210 for it I can’t remember exactly, I feel HP makes a great product that lasts and runs the range of prices. I also only use seagate hard drives the ones I have all stand up to all kinds of abuse and travel. I have a 40gb which I bought for Iraq in 2005 that is still going strong after 2 trips there, that was big back then now I have a 4 tb external for the same uses, so I use it for pictures and documents. Both companies make good products that hold up over time for good values. IMO


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[MI.oldguy]

Laptops are pretty cheap nowadays.couple hundred bucks.....

[Mister Mills]

Two years old and it is failing? I have a Windows 7 that is still running, but I cleared it of garbage, and I reset it to near-OEM Specs. A friend gave it to me, and it was bogging down with all of the pics and stuff that he had loaded. So, I cleared that stuff, and it is running pretty good right now.

Load everything to a satellite drive, and try resetting you system. It might kick into gear, and you will get a lot more use out of it. I reset mine about 3 times, until it started working better.

[BucketBack]

Asus X555LAB
OS-Windows 10 Home 64 bit
Processor-Intel Core i3-5020U
Memory 4GB
1 TB HDD

I was thinking of bumping up the memory to 8GB and go to a SDD drive.
Get a carrier for the existing drive for $10 as a backup

[juskom95]

Asus X555LAB
OS-Windows 10 Home 64 bit
Processor-Intel Core i3-5020U
Memory 4GB
1 TB HDD

I was thinking of bumping up the memory to 8GB and go to a SDD drive.
Get a carrier for the existing drive for $10 as a backup

An SSD will run you some money (but they are NICE).

It looks like it is a standard 2.5" hard drive, not the slim form.

Here's what's involved:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Asus+X555LA-SI305041+Hard+Drive+Replacement/51969

[juskom95]

What is the drive doing exactly? Making any sounds?

[Innkeeper]

Asus X555LAB
OS-Windows 10 Home 64 bit
Processor-Intel Core i3-5020U
Memory 4GB
1 TB HDD

I was thinking of bumping up the memory to 8GB and go to a SDD drive.
Get a carrier for the existing drive for $10 as a backup

Problem with laptops they may not have space for additional memory, when I replaced the regular drive with a SSD for a boot drive there was an empty bay for the old drive for storage space, and you can get a 1-4 TB external drive from like $40-120 to use as an anything else storage. I used them for movies on my last deployment, and for everything else now.

[juskom95]

An SSD will run you some money (but they are NICE).

It looks like it is a standard 2.5" hard drive, not the slim form.

Here's what's involved:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Asus+X555LA-SI305041+Hard+Drive+Replacement/51969

You can probably upgrade to a single stick of 8gb RAM

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/ASUS/x550la

[juskom95]

Problem with laptops they may not have space for additional memory, when I replaced the regular drive with a SSD for a boot drive there was an empty bay for the old drive for storage space, and you can get a 1-4 TB external drive from like $40-120 to use as an anything else storage. I used them for movies on my last deployment, and for everything else now.

Some ship with thin drives now, 7mm I think it is.

[BucketBack]

https://www.hsds.sr/productdisplay/asus-156-intel-core-i3-5020u-4gb-ram-1-tb-hdd-laptop-x555l-hi31103j

I watched another video where the guy used a credit card to open the unit up

I assembled a desktop in 1996 when Pentium 200 was the rage

[Innkeeper]

You can probably upgrade to a single stick of 8gb RAM

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/ASUS/x550la

Very true I did not think that far out of the box.....I am taking a break from study for my EMT course, brain burn out. :explodingbomb:

[juskom95]

Very true I did not think that far out of the box.....I am taking a break from study for my EMT course, brain burn out. :explodingbomb:

Meh. This is my job.

[juskom95]

https://www.hsds.sr/productdisplay/asus-156-intel-core-i3-5020u-4gb-ram-1-tb-hdd-laptop-x555l-hi31103j

I watched another video where the guy used a credit card to open the unit up

I assembled a desktop in 1996 when Pentium 200 was the rage

I used a small screwdriver or my fingernails on the systems I've worked with.

[BucketBack]

I had already downloaded the crucial tool to find out what was compatible

Glad to see someone else knows about them. I was thinking maybe I D/L some malware or something

[BucketBack]

I bookmarked this page
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/ASUS/x555la

[juskom95]

I had already downloaded the crucial tool to find out what was compatible

Glad to see someone else knows about them. I was thinking maybe I D/L some malware or something

I'm lazy when it comes to memory, Crucial makes it easy to find the right type/speed. Then I usually shop around for a better price!

[Gambit]

best way to fix a computer is to hit it with a rock then lite it on fire then go buy new one
I fine this way to work very well with me

[BucketBack]

What is the drive doing exactly? Making any sounds?

clicking shuttering noises, blue screen for a couple seconds, then back to whatever I was doing

[juskom95]

clicking shuttering noises, blue screen for a couple seconds, then back to whatever I was doing

Yup, its failing.

One trick, if it fails completely before you back everything up, put it in the freezer for a few minutes (just keep it dry!) and try again. Sometimes it works, others it does not.

[BucketBack]

I did a backup several updates ago
I'll remember the freezer trick

[Mister Mills]

clicking shuttering noises, blue screen for a couple seconds, then back to whatever I was doing

Oh Boy! That ain't good.

[juskom95]

I did a backup several updates ago
I'll remember the freezer trick

Well . . . its an excuse for an upgrade, right?

[BucketBack]

HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-Inch 1TB 7200 RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0J22423

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00B4QESVQ
Gonna order it Prime so I get it this month. Opinions?

Lots of good reviews, couple PC places rate it best overall for HDD