hard drive killer laptop
by Pedroski from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4YFB9)
I use my old Samsung laptop at home for tinkering and general trying things out. It is much slower than my new one, but that is really for work.
A couple of days ago, the computer froze, could not be rebooted, fsck could not solve the problem. I put it down to the old (magnetic) hd gone wrong. The boot sector damaged. I put it in an usb external drive holder. I can still access my files.
I took out the old drive and put in a 124GB ssd drive which already had Ubuntu 18.o4 installed. It is not very old, maybe 2 years.
Yesterday, that crashed too! Again, if I put it in an usb external drive holder, I can still access my files.
Something tells me, the old laptop is responsible, not a fault in both drives.
What might cause the old laptop to mess up the drives??
A couple of days ago, the computer froze, could not be rebooted, fsck could not solve the problem. I put it down to the old (magnetic) hd gone wrong. The boot sector damaged. I put it in an usb external drive holder. I can still access my files.
I took out the old drive and put in a 124GB ssd drive which already had Ubuntu 18.o4 installed. It is not very old, maybe 2 years.
Yesterday, that crashed too! Again, if I put it in an usb external drive holder, I can still access my files.
Something tells me, the old laptop is responsible, not a fault in both drives.
What might cause the old laptop to mess up the drives??