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Hey, my brother wanted to but a laptop <1000 CAD. He wants a laptop which will look good i.e. slim bezels and a bit thinner. According to his workflow he would require at least a 4-core processor and at least a decent graphics card with a 120-250 GB SSD and if possible a HDD (Not a must but if there will be very helpful). It should also have 8 or 8+ GB of RAM, he wont know how to add more RAM as he is not so tech savvy (meaning he has not opened up a laptop before for any purpose). I suggested him some Laptops like: 1. ASUS VivoBook 15.6" Intel i5-8265U (He wants something looking like this ones) 2.ASUS VivoBook S Intel Core i5-8250U 3. ASUS VivoBook F512DA-EB51 (Ryzen 5 3500U) 4. Lenovo Ideapad L340 81LW000DUS (Ryzen 5 3500U) 5. ASUS TUF 15.6" (Ryzen 5 3500H) : He didn't like the design I had thought of suggesting Dell XPS laptops (<1000 CAD). I have not researched them well so please give comments on this laptop as they are very much recommended by the LTT Group. Can you guys suggest some laptops which would satisfy this criteria.

I have installed linux (Ubuntu 18.04.2) on my PC. I have been having error where I have to run command 'fsck' in it initframs to make it boot, but then it becomes laggy. While I was researching about it I found a thread on net which encouraged to run command 'systemctl' which I did and then it showed me that there is error in some sector of my HDD ( basically sector 2055, and my drive starts at 2048). I was now not even able to reinstall ubuntu, so I thought that I should exclude that portion of storage and install it after almost 1GB if space and it installed fine and was running buttery smooth, but now it has started again. When I ran the 'systemctl' command it also showed the command that is jammed in that sector, it was 'Read DMA' and something related to it afterwards. Some guy on the thread I mentioned suggested the guy to input zeros in the sector, i tried it but was unsuccessful. Can anyone help resolve it!

It was not letting me change the commands with 'e' and when I booted it again did the same thing so I ran the command fsck again from Initframs where it took me and them I was able to change it and it booted correctly with everything being showed OK. Does it help identifying or should I make it permanent and try it with 2-3 boot ups?

OK i will try it just as I get home and let you know

What are you saying, i am newbie and pretty new to this things can you elaborate please.

I have a ethernet cable constantly connected to my PC all the timw, so can the reason you could be it.

It shutdowns properly, but when it happens i am not able to boot it just get stuck at purple type screen and i will be forced to make a hard shutdown ( it all happens at booting).

I have installed Linux (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS) since I was having some problem with Windows, even the old ones like Windows 7. I have updated it completely and installed pop theme according to my liking with some extensions to make it look like Windows for easy transition. I had some problems with hard disk for which I gave my PC to an engineer for repair, he said that my HDD is fine but he found some minor problems with PC's PSU and advised to change it, but I want to do complete do over of my PC so I turned it down. It has been a few days since installation and I have been getting into initfram at boot up in atleast 1 out of 3 boot ups. It shows me to run fsck command manually, after the commands completion I boot it up and it boots up finely but now it has started to slow down. So I wanted to know can a faulty PSU be a reason for this as well as the problems I was having with my Windows which was slowing down too.

Its a brand new HDD. And even after that it wont start. I even tried resetting it, but it did nothing.

It was at 2.2GHz when years before I got it, but just a year ago I overclocked it to 2.4Ghz, but its base clock could go till 2.6GHz as put through in the specs. Why, does it cause a problem?

I got it from a local store. But he provided me with a replacement, but it is a bit weird thing that I think he gave me a Surveillance drive (I think). Its name is WD 5000AVDS. I googled its name and it showed me the same drive on Amazon, and its specs looked like a surveillance drive, but I am not quite sure about it. I tried than installing windows and even lightest weight Linux I could get, heck I even tried installing windows 7, but they are all displaying the same problems as my old drive was displaying. Could you help me?

I recently installed windows 10 on my new HDD, it booted after a long haul into windows at first attempt, when I updated it, it showed some problem but was working. Then when I restarted it, it got into an automatic repair and diagnostic loop. After 3 hard shutdowns, I reached Automatic repair windows, where it showed the error details are saved in SrtTrial.txt. I opened it, everything in it showed 0x0 error code there was just one check for LCU which showed 0x17 error. I am thinking this might be the reason, but in how many ways I google it I find nothing to solve the error. Please help me solve this! Edited: I performed 'chkdsk /f/r' command it gave me an error as '766f6c756d265e63 470', I googled it but no one was able to solve it, one was able to solve but it was through pure luck that it just worked.

Today I went to exchange the HDD but he said that he has to check its health and was saying its normal for a HDD to have C5 C6 error which was reported by crystal diskinfo. I was not sure what he meant by checking its health, he further added that if the health is above 75-80% he will not give me a replacement. Is there any such rule like this?

Cool I will just replace it as I don't want to but any new HDD right now as I have one more HDD with same problem as this one. Thanks for your help everyone.

Here is a snapshot of the things I could view in CrystalDiskInfo Software.

I was going to the vendor and was going to claim it but due those comments I mentioned on other sites a bit confused about what to do.

I installed CrystalDiskInfo and it is showing 'Caution' written and can you please tell me about which snapshot were you asking about.

I have been having a lot of problem on by HDD, it used to completely breakdown in a few days on installation of any OS, I tried Windows 7,8,8.1,10 and even Linux Mint, Ubuntu but the same thing happened. I have formatted it completely after backing up my data. I installed Windows 8.1 very hardly on it and when I checked for bad sectors on it, I found 4 bad sectors in it when I tested it with EaseUS Partition Wizard. I heard a lot of people that if you have bad sectors in a HDD, its not good. I still have warranty on this disk. But I also read some people saying that there are always couple of bad sectors already while manufacturing. I am confused that should I replace it and if I do it will it be any helpful. I have attached an image of the complete scan for you to review

I was trying to gain read and write permission in one of my Hard drive partition. I searched online, it showed me that I have to use 'chmod' command, but it did nothing. So while I was googling I found a method to unmount the drive and then mount it using Terminal and then use 'chmod' command so I did that and it worked, I was able to create folders and copy-paste things. So as I was trying to apply it to all my partitions, I saw that I had some free spaces between the partitions, so I decided to include them too in the partition. I did so, but when I rebooted one of my partition which I think was more partitioned inside as there were three partitions and above their name there was some name written with the space it was taking, and suddenly it was just not showing up. But Thanks guys for the help. I found out a tool online which helped me get all the date back, which is called 'testdisk' and all the drives are restored back to the way it was. Thanks for all the help

I am able to make a new partition, should I do it? Will it make the files in that partition appear?

There was a free partition before the partition that's missing is it possible that it might not be showing because of that?

I didn't chmod the whole drive. Even if I boot in live USB how am I supposed to find the files? Does restore to an older copy of it will load it because I have an image created before it happened.

I was trying to get read and write privileges in my drives, but in middle of it my PC hanged and when it started it went in 'initframs' I got out of it but when I checked my home directory one of my partition became unallocated and I am very confused what to do. I had a lot of data in it and dont know how to get it back. Can anyone please help me

I have got out of most of the errors but I got a few last ones can someone help translate this, I googled it but it didn't give any useful information to me. 0175:err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"RunRMSInit" returned 1627 0175:err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1627

I am installing ETABS. It is not supported in according to people in WINE, but I'm trying it.