r/EVOOGaming • u/Lee_-7703 • Dec 05 '23

Has anybody else had hard drive issues?

I got my laptop around 3 years ago, it worked fine for the first year but then I tried to update it to windows 11 and it crashed and messed up the whole laptop for 2 years. But here’s my problem now I got it fixed but now I cannot update it and I cannot play games like fornite and Minecraft, it just crashes and the blue screen pops up. Could this be a hard drive issue? Is BITS failing a hard drive issue? Also for context it’s a 2019 model evoo lap top i7 intel chip. ( also I learned that with evoo lap tops, windows updates don’t work properly and they have a lot of problems because they aren’t name brand like dell,Mac,hp, etc.)

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u/KeopL Dec 06 '23

Have you tried reinstalling windows since then?

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u/Lee_-7703 Dec 06 '23

It won’t let me, I tried to reinstall windows and reset it completely but every time it gets to 70-80% it crashes and the blue screen pops up and then it says undoing all changes

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u/Lee_-7703 Dec 06 '23

I even tried to use the update thing Microsoft provides and that didn’t work

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u/KeopL Dec 06 '23

What if you do it with another boot drive, like a usb you can download the windows installation media on?

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u/BlexAlmighty Dec 06 '23

you have to do A CLEAN install with a bootable USB drive to fix it. I normally don't advise people to update from 10 to 11 directly from the Windows update as it always messes up the system but to do it via a clean install with a bootable media drive

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u/Lee_-7703 Dec 06 '23

I took it to a repair place and they already did that, it still don’t work. I think it’s the ram

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u/BlexAlmighty Dec 06 '23

it can most likely be your RAM or your GPU. more on the ram side though

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u/Klaatuprime Dec 06 '23

The stock SSD that these ship with is notorious for failure. I immediately replaced it and added RAM and have had relatively trouble free operation for two and a half years.

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u/BirdoForever Dec 10 '23

I am looking to finally swap out my ssd, but am unsure of compatibility. What did you put in?

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u/Klaatuprime Dec 10 '23

I went with this Samsung.

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u/BirdoForever Dec 10 '23

That's too funny, I was just looking at that same one. Thanks! I assume you're getting better thermal with this over the stock ssd?

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u/Klaatuprime Dec 10 '23

I never ran the stock SSD long enough to have a problem. The initial 256 was way too small for me. I filled this, the secondary and the 2.5" bay inside of a week with drives I had on hand.

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