Physical Hardrive Damage?

[Hydrogen1803]

Hello guys,

        I am dealing with a possibly broken hard drive on my laptop, Gateway ne56r49u. My mouse also does not work. The problem started after I hit the computer on the front left where the hard drive is (yes, I know, I was extremely stressed, and I kind of lost control), and it blue screened, and I had to shut it off. It turned on the next time, and I tried to back up, only to have a failure while trying to transfer files. In retrospect, I probably should've just made a disk image. The files stopped transferring halfway through, and I was only able to transfer some. The mouse issues occurred after about 3-4 restarts. A month later, it now boots extremely slowly, and most of the icons show up as blank icons, not to mention the mouse is still broken. I thankfully am not concerned about saving what is on the drive, but I am upset that my laptop does not work. Do you guys suggest I try and replace the hardrive, or just throw it away? The thing that gets me is that the mouse doesn't work. Thank you in advance. 

[glitchmaster0001]

5 minutes ago, Hydrogen1803 said:

Hello guys,

        I am dealing with a possibly broken hard drive on my laptop, Gateway ne56r49u. My mouse also does not work. The problem started after I hit the computer on the front left where the hard drive is (yes, I know, I was extremely stressed, and I kind of lost control), and it blue screened, and I had to shut it off. It turned on the next time, and I tried to back up, only to have a failure while trying to transfer files. In retrospect, I probably should've just made a disk image. The files stopped transferring halfway through, and I was only able to transfer some. The mouse issues occurred after about 3-4 restarts. A month later, it now boots extremely slowly, and most of the icons show up as blank icons, not to mention the mouse is still broken. I thankfully am not concerned about saving what is on the drive, but I am upset that my laptop does not work. Do you guys suggest I try and replace the hardrive, or just throw it away? The thing that gets me is that the mouse doesn't work. Thank you in advance. 

lol you remind me of when i was a kid and i played a game called free realms on a very shitty acer laptop. (i didnt know anything about computers back then) the game was very laggy because of probably the weak graphics that it had and also the fact that it has 2gb of ram so i slammed my fist on the laptop palm rest and the whole thing blue screened also. my dad ended up throwing the shitbox out and then a family friend gave us a shitty dell tower and i tried playing my games on it and lagged on there as well so i took a hammer and hit the side lol and the tower just died. anyways enough about me. your laptops hdd probably is physically damaged as the computer was on when you hit it so that disk was rotating and chances are the header crashed into the actual disk itself and damaged your drive and your data. that is probably why it failed when you tried to back up the data. the extremely slow boot up time and missing icons is also a sign that the drive was damaged so bad that the data in the drive started to become corrupted. if you want to sink in money to such an old laptop because of sentimental values then go ahead and get a new drive. personally for me if that laptop doesn't have any sentimental value then id just accept the loss and chuck it out or salvage for usable parts like the Optical Drive or the RAM then chuck it out. 

 

[Hydrogen1803]

1 minute ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

lol you remind me of when i was a kid and i played a game called free realms on a very shitty acer laptop. (i didnt know anything about computers back then) the game was very laggy because of probably the weak graphics that it had and also the fact that it has 2gb of ram so i slammed my fist on the laptop palm rest and the whole thing blue screened also. my dad ended up throwing the shitbox out and then a family friend gave us a shitty dell tower and i tried playing my games on it and lagged on there as well so i took a hammer and hit the side lol and the tower just died. anyways enough about me. your laptops hdd probably is physically damaged as the computer was on when you hit it so that disk was rotating and chances are the header crashed into the actual disk itself and damaged your drive and your data. that is probably why it failed when you tried to back up the data. the extremely slow boot up time and missing icons is also a sign that the drive was damaged so bad that the data in the drive started to become corrupted. if you want to sink in money to such an old laptop because of sentimental values then go ahead and get a new drive. personally for me if that laptop doesn't have any sentimental value then id just accept the loss and chuck it out or salvage for usable parts like the Optical Drive or the RAM then chuck it out. 

 

Thank you, I am actually not quite sure what I want to do with it. I might just do what you said, and salvage for old parts, and scrap it. Then again, I am not quite sure at the moment. The story you included was funny haha.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, Hydrogen1803 said:

Thank you, I am actually not quite sure what I want to do with it. I might just do what you said, and salvage for old parts, and scrap it. Then again, I am not quite sure at the moment. The story you included was funny haha.

lol the thing that i remembered the most was when i hit my acer laptop cuz the game was super laggy then it blue screened. i remember it ran windows XP Professional 

[Hydrogen1803]

Just now, glitchmaster0001 said:

lol the thing that i remembered the most was when i hit my acer laptop cuz the game was super laggy then it blue screened. i remember it ran windows XP Professional 

My laptop before this one ran XP, it was crap and I also broke it, except for fun lol.

[glitchmaster0001]

4 minutes ago, Hydrogen1803 said:

My laptop before this one ran XP, it was crap and I also broke it, except for fun lol.

if you are looking for a new laptop i can help you with that just tell me whats your budget and what do you want to do with your laptop

[Hydrogen1803]

Just now, glitchmaster0001 said:

if you are looking for a new laptop i can help you with that just tell me whats your budget and what do you want to do with your laptop

Sure, thanks. I was looking at running light to medium games, but mostly just as a web browsing and writing machine. My budget is $700-$900 dollars.

[glitchmaster0001]

Just now, Hydrogen1803 said:

Sure, thanks. I was looking at running light to medium games, but mostly just as a web browsing and writing machine. My budget is $700-$900 dollars.

how many hours do you want the battery life to be? 

[Hydrogen1803]

Just now, glitchmaster0001 said:

how many hours do you want the battery life to be? 

6-8 would be optimal.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, Hydrogen1803 said:

6-8 would be optimal.

and your fine with a 15.6 inch laptop right?

[Hydrogen1803]

Just now, glitchmaster0001 said:

and your fine with a 15.6 inch laptop right?

Oh god yes, surprisingly, that is actually what I want, as all of my bags are fit to store a laptop that size.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, Hydrogen1803 said:

Oh god yes, surprisingly, that is actually what I want, as all of my bags are fit to store a laptop that size.

sorry for all the questions but what brand do you prefer? 

[Hydrogen1803]

Just now, glitchmaster0001 said:

sorry for all the questions but what brand do you prefer? 

It's fine, I am grateful that you are helping me . I prefer Dell, MSI, or HP especially. Also, if it could be not too heavy, that would be great. I don't need it to be extremely light but I would prefer that it is not too heavy, thank you.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, Hydrogen1803 said:

It's fine, I am grateful that you are helping me . I prefer Dell, MSI, or HP especially. Also, if it could be not too heavy, that would be great. I don't need it to be extremely light but I would prefer that it is not too heavy, thank you.

ok i came up with a list of a few laptops you can look into

HP http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00INC863U/?tag=portablepicker-20

DELL http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015PYYDMQ/?tag=portablepicker-20 (the dell has SSD so no worries damaging it by hitting it lol)

Acer http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1117908-REG/acer_nx_mnhaa_012_v3_i7_5500u_12gb_1tb_windows8_164_15_6.html

MSI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152903&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=7930973&SID= (i personally own this laptop and all i can say is when gaming it runs pretty loud if playing demanding games and it has a 2 to 3 hour battery life. but it is very powerful and i got it for $799 on newegg during black friday sales) 

[Hydrogen1803]

4 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

ok i came up with a list of a few laptops you can look into

HP http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00INC863U/?tag=portablepicker-20

DELL http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015PYYDMQ/?tag=portablepicker-20 (the dell has SSD so no worries damaging it by hitting it lol)

Acer http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1117908-REG/acer_nx_mnhaa_012_v3_i7_5500u_12gb_1tb_windows8_164_15_6.html

MSI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152903&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=7930973&SID= (i personally own this laptop and all i can say is when gaming it runs pretty loud if playing demanding games and it has a 2 to 3 hour battery life. but it is very powerful and i got it for $799 on newegg during black friday sales) 

Okay, thank you very much for the help, have a nice night!

[glitchmaster0001]

1 hour ago, Hydrogen1803 said:

Okay, thank you very much for the help, have a nice night!

no worries hope you find the laptop your looking for