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

    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?

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

    What's the laptop model?
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    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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    Laptops are pretty cheap nowadays.couple hundred bucks.....

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    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.
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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by BucketBack View Post
    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+X5...lacement/51969
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    What is the drive doing exactly? Making any sounds?
    "Every person’s life is theirs by right. An individual’s life can and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man’s throat and dictate how he must live his life."



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    Quote Originally Posted by BucketBack View Post
    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.
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