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I bought Dell Inspiron N5010 in 2011. In 2018, I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on Windows 10. Since then, in Ubuntu, PC is heating up a lot and hence I used only Windows 10 all along. But in between I faced GRUB issues many times and fixed using fsck or set commands. But now the machine won't start. I tried installing GRUB and reinstalling Ubuntu as well, but nothing worked. When I ran diagnostics from BIOS, then I got HDD error 2000:0146.

I will be glad if you can help me with fixing HDD from Ubuntu live USB. If this doesn't work, I would like to format my PC and reinstall Ubuntu. Can this be done on HDD with errors?

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There's no point to installing Ubuntu on a failed HDD that has errors especially when SSDs are so cheap. SSDs last much longer than HDDs because as the name suggests an SSD is a Solid State Drive. If your stored data on the HDD matters to you, back it up and upgrade your storage device.

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The hard drive is well past its expected life.

HDDs wear out and fail over time, taking their data with them. Any files residing on a single HDD that’s a few years old is destined to be lost – not ‘if’ but ‘when’.

(Citation from this article)

My personal experience is after 5 to 7 years its a game of roulette.

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