I asked the question Why haven’t boot errors show up after cleaning the dust? about twenty days ago. I’m summarizing some points.
My laptop froze frequently, it’s was slow, and there were some errors while booting. Errors were the following:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected
Boot device and press a key_
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
Port O : HGST HTE721010A9E630
S.M.A.R.T Statues Bad. Backup and Replace
Press F1 to resume
I know that the last message means my hard drive is failing. I installed an app (don’t remember the name) that read the S.M.A.R.T, and it said the hard drive was fine. I really don’t understand!
I’ve bought a new laptop and I’m kind of doing experiments with the old one.
I installed Ubuntu two weeks ago and there was not even one boot error since then. The computer is faster and smoother, but I think it’s normal because Ubuntu is more lightweight. But about the boot errors it’s amazing. My laptop transformed from a garbage to a really good laptop. My question is that why is this happening really? The more I’m doing this “experiments”, the more I doubt the hard drive failure.
