Laptop HDD says error "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" after I dropped it

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Hello, I recently dropped my laptop(It's an ASUS K55VM) while it was running on Windows 7 from about 1 meter high. I was a little bit dent on the side, but nothing really serious on first look. When I dropped it, it was running on Windows, after the drop it continued working without any signs of breaking down, I also sent a Facebook message after that. As I was frustrated I turned it off after a minute or two. When I wanted to turn it back on some time later an error message "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart". I restarted it but it kept showing up. I know it's a result of the fall. But in the BIOS the HDD is recognised and it's odd to me that I was able to use it some time after the fall. I hope that the HDD isn't completely dead because I can't afford a new one at the moment.

I tried installing Ubuntu on it. In the setup it recognises the HDD, but it shows an error while intalling it. It says something like "Input/output... error while writing on /dev /sda."

There are no weird noises coming from the laptop and I am currently using it from an Ubuntu Install CD(With the Try Ubuntu feature).

Everything else appears to be working normally. I've read that after a fall the HDD can get damaged, but it's really odd that it didn't die at once. I haven't opened the HDD cover to see if something is deattached(I'm not sure it will solve anything).

I don't know A LOT about computers and I know less about laptops, because this is my first one. I would like it to be a small fixable problem, and not quite expensive because I spent nearly all my money on getting this laptop in the first place.

I hope I get some helpful answers and that they are cheap to apply.

Cheers, and thank you.
 

dingo07

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you shouldn't have opened up the previously airtight drive - now you've let in contaminated air that will degrade the internal components quicker, besides you not being able to fix anything inside to begin with!

there's only one thing you can do - hope it works again

start saving for another drive, even if it survived you'll want to replace it with a new one
 

OxygeN1337

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I haven't opened anything yet, and I just want to open the laptop cover for the HDD, and see if the SATA cable or power supply cable is still on.
 

dingo07

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ohh.. my bad then, I thought I read you did open the drive and didn't see anything wrong...
 
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Hello!
Sorry for a delay in response, Busy with examinations and tests

There are many reasons for this problem
1) Due to the force of falling your hard disk spindle arm (A data reading arm) has broken
2) Due to the force of falling your hard disk storage disks inside it has gone misplaced in distances between spindle arm
3) If you had open it due to your finger prints on internal storage disk hard disk internal storage disk might have gone destroyed.

I AM 100% sure that only Hard disk Experts like Hard disk Manufacturers only can make your hard disk repaired. I am also saying that sometime the hard disk won't get repaired i.e. chance for success is not sure

I recommend you to buy a new hard disk and transfer the data stored in the broken hard disk to the newer one with the help of an expert


 
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Any hard disk is arranged in such a way that there are 3 to 5 disks and a slim reader in between each of them. When the Computer or Hard disk falls from hand this stick gets broken. You are currently having a need to change that hard disk. A little shock can kill a hard 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