BurningPixels
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The hd noise is really low I can barely notice (I have to put my ear on the keyboard to notice it), my lap is always pretty silent except when fans are on while gaming,If your hearing clunk clunk and you didn't before, 99% chance its the drive OR the connection to the drive, a loose sata/power connection can cause that as well. You want to check those first BEFORE you keep trying to load windows from the drive, external media is fine though.
A repair disc/usb stick or windows install disc might get you in long enough to easily backup or clone your drive if it can't repair it, but I would check the connectors first since that can actually cause damage if they're not in right.
As long as you have an external drive big enough you can literally copy your entire windows installation as a direct copy (to an HDD, not to an SSD) and even the Windows will stay genuine (I can also get you your windows product code if that fails) as long as you can get into recovery mode at least.
First tip, don't wear anything that attracts static and always touch REAL metal first if you can't get your hands on a static wristband, wear sneakers and stay off carpet...never keep the battery in or have the power cord in (thats an obvious, most ppl forget the battery though heh)
As long as you don't static zap it, its unlikely you can damage anything EXCEPT the drive, and thats a matter of just not bending the piece attached to the sata/power cables (cheap as shit), but still simple
My pc today when I tried to boot it went into recovery mode and It tried to recovery windows files but it failed. Now when I boot it I have the Acer logo with loading circle for some minutes then the screen goes black but pc still on.
I think it should be hard disc corruption. A week ago when I booted windows did automatically a windows installation fix because there were some files corrupted, then it booted but Win is very slow and very unstable, it takes forever loading things or the system blocks.
Thanks for the tips I saw in some tutorial that it is important to disconnect even the internal battery before doing any operation.