My mother’s laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work.

Would changing the hard drive do any good?

  • Philco@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I’m a bit late to the party but if you’re still running a machine with BIOS rather than uefi You should definitely look into spinrite 6.1 from grc.net written by Steve Gibson who is nothing short of a genius when it comes to low level hdd optimisation. (7 will support uefi) if your machine has legacy support you might be able to get it booted as well. He has all sorts of utilities including ones to make sure you can spinrite will boot on your machine before purchase

    (Shields up ring any bells to the oldies, same guy)

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I hate to be “anti-environment and pro-capitalism”, but… just buy a new one. The worst thing about HDDs (in my opinion) is that it’s hard to tell when they’ll fail. You don’t have this problem. Clone the drive, spend $20-$50 on the same storage size, and you’re done!

    Or double the budget, and upgrade to an SSD. I know it’s easy to suggest someone else spend their money, but that’s really the only option here…

    • NONE@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      Where I live (Venezuela) computer components are not very cheap or easy to obtain, and I don’t have the money to afford an SSD (at least not now nor a near future)…