Is that usual? I’ve been putting off updating my computer when it pops up, because if it ain’t broke don’t fix it , amirite? - and they always make things worse...

  When I started up my computer today everything was fine for about 20 seconds. It froze and an error popped up , something along the lines of “critical process died” , upon restarting i received the error of “hard drive not found or recognized” or something along those lines. Really bummed, I’m hoping it’s just something easy , update related. 

Ive tried to do a system recovery, but it is not able to finish the process. I don’t know what to do from here 

Any input ,suggestions , or advice?!

dell xps 8150 Windows 10

take your harddrive out put it in another pc check in bios if harddrive is found.

when bios sees the harddrive just bootup (on the other pc ofcourse) and run a diagnostic.

a windows update cant make a harddrive to faillure.

in the worst case your harddrive main board is damaged (you can only get your stuff back by replacing a 1 on 1 copy of the same board on the harddrive).

I’m sure it’s my fault, I never turn my computer off. Never.

i don’t know what you mean by replacing a 1on1 copy to be honest ?

i have an old dell laying around, assuming the hard drives are interchangeable I can try this, I don’t know anything about working on computers. I can change out sticks of ram and a graphics card, that’s about the extent of if.

UBUNTU!

ok. so , update! my hard drive is "Failing" as in, it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't.. Annoying , so i went to the store and bought a new hard drive

 

 

 

But im sort of ignorant on this sort of thing.. like i can physically install the hard drive , but i cannot get it to work. I suppose i need to buy a whole new windows? or somehow transfer windows from my half life hard drive to my new one. then i realize i accidentally bought a 1tb hard drive when my computer came with a 2tb hard drive. Somebody told me it may cause issues. anyways long story short, i fixed the issue and it was alot easier then i thought it was going to be!. here - 

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Edited November 6, 20178 yr by sonda