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<blockquote data-quote="ChuckBradley" data-source="post: 678989" data-attributes="member: 97551"><p>I took a disk from an older, dead notebook and replaced the bad disk. I cursed HP a lot for making the two components that a user is most likely to change, HDD and memory, the hardest components to get at. Then I physically destroyed the bad disk. It took a lot of experimenting to discover that the boot process has changed for Win8, and HP set the BIOS to prevent the legacy mode. Anyway, now it boots and to answer my original question, it was not a fault in the system that caused the disk failure. The replacement disk has an old version of Windows, so I will have to wipe it clean. I have multiple backups of all the data, but I lost (or never made) the recovery disk for Windows. I will be loading some version of Linux instead of buying Win8. Thanks very much to all of you for your suggestions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChuckBradley, post: 678989, member: 97551"] I took a disk from an older, dead notebook and replaced the bad disk. I cursed HP a lot for making the two components that a user is most likely to change, HDD and memory, the hardest components to get at. Then I physically destroyed the bad disk. It took a lot of experimenting to discover that the boot process has changed for Win8, and HP set the BIOS to prevent the legacy mode. Anyway, now it boots and to answer my original question, it was not a fault in the system that caused the disk failure. The replacement disk has an old version of Windows, so I will have to wipe it clean. I have multiple backups of all the data, but I lost (or never made) the recovery disk for Windows. I will be loading some version of Linux instead of buying Win8. Thanks very much to all of you for your suggestions. [/QUOTE]
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