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What's going on here? A week or so ago this showed up and haven't been able to turn on my laptop since. Some hardware issue?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I think this might be the wrong community for this. Where else could I post this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Idk any tech support communities, but you should try booting into BIOS to see if your storage drive is detected. If not, it probably failed (read: it's dead, fam)

You could try to see if you can reinstall the OS but if the BIOS doesn't detect the drive, I doubt the OS setup will.

While the data loss will suck, a new drive isn't very expensive. Plus if you're still on a HDD, it would be a good time to replace it with an SSD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

THE DATA IS GONE!! FUUUUUUUUCK

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This seems like a good community for it, as the other commenter said your boot drive is likely dead.