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29 month old, £900 laptop developed a fault.
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It stops after the manufacturers logo, as soon as it tries to load the OS. OS partition tools don't detect the drive, even basic Linux commands can't do anything with it.pappa_golf wrote: »if the bios recognises the drive then its unlikely that its a motherboard problem , you did not state what the fault was , at what point does bootup stop?0 -
From what you have described its looks like the HDD is at fault. The fact that you can boot into Linux from a USB key suggests that the rest is working OK including the motherboard. If it was me I would just replace the HDD.0
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