[Update 2] The journey of fixing slow laptop

So like always, my sister give me the most obnoxious stuff to do.
This time: Her friend's laptop.

Dell Inspirion 17r. When I saw Dell, I tried not to get a heart attack. [i3 3th gen, 6GB of RAM]
What she did? Her mother turned off her PC when partition was being formatted

Okay. After buying a new pendrive [and verifying that my old pendrive is dying] and doing some heavy testing, I can already tell that HDD needs to be swapped. [80% of HDD has unfixable bad blocks, 15% works, the rest is just corrupted]
My dad was actually negotiating with me that "I/O" related errors and "Read-only" errors were only due to corrupted partition table and that formatting would fix it but after further inspection [ft. Failed Grub installation] I diagnosed that HDD is done for good.

I contacted my "client" [Oh, how professional] and she's probably willing to shell out for HDD.

To put it simply, user has been abusing formats, repartitioning and probably other stuff which I don't recall.
The HDD is done for good and nothing can save it other than it's own death.
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@Felek666 oh and why would u install mint when you could just put gparted on a usb and use that?
https://gparted.org/liveusb.php
 
Best thing to do is a GParted pendrive, format through GParted and then reinstall Windows. Should work.
 
"uhh yeah i just installed libreoffice instead of your PEASANT WINDOWS XDDDDDDD!!1111!!1dd!! It's so much easier, look all you need to do is go into the terminal, type -sudo -s -d -76.perm(), hit enter, open up the administrator panel, contact icewolf chrmod, and type -get 5600; x -chroot56B, hit enter, contact the fucking audrino server by typing #root 76.#find 73B; -hunter2, and it's open!"
 
They cannot charge you money for a open source OS you know ? *ahem Mac = UNIX, so a derivate from Linux*
 
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At least, there is a matter of fact that Mac is a pale copy of UNIX, and so a copy of Linux.
 
Still the base is SUPPOSED to be a open source kernel, only Darwin is available smh
 
seems like partition table issue. I wonder how about access time to sectors on disk. You can scan surface by MHDD, but it take few hours, however it tells much about surface condition. There's somewhere cool bootable diagnostic tools on one iso. hirens or something.
 
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Rather unlucky. At first, I got I/O errors, after creating a new partition table (msdos) it stopped showing me these errors. However, Installer still crashed. [Input/output error]
I'll try tomorrow with new pendrive since my old one seems to be slowly dying.
 
Wow, wow, wow. There's a lot of bullshit here. macOS is based off Darwin, which itself is based off UNIX. It's not a "ripoff" or whatever.
 
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Maybe the HDD is going bad? I had a HDD that was failing for a while (it wasn't even my boot drive) and Windows was really slow, until one day there were red warning lights everywhere about it having failed SMART tests, still worked fine until I replaced it but it was slowing everything else down.
It seems like the specs are pretty decent so there's no reason it should be that slow. Unless that i3 is an U series one as those are a lot slower, but still it should be perfectly usable.
Also, you can make any Linux distro work with UEFI, as there's a signed GRUB thanks to Ubuntu.
By the way Dell is pretty good, HP on the other hand...
 
@The Real Jdbye On HP computers it really depends. Some are functional and have a long life, and some others are functional but have a really short life.

@Felek666 Have you tried a HDD integrity test ? (if they are bad blocks, do not continue, your HDD is dead)
 
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@sp3off
Mhm, some bad sectors and lots of other stuff. Going to test again tomorrow.
 
It's not just their computers, I honestly don't know anyone who has owned a HP device and has been happy with it. There's always some problem. Personally I had a digital camera from them which was pretty bad, all around, and a printer that had issues with the paper feeding too much, feeding the paper slanted or just jamming, and those issues existed since the day I got it. By being careful with how I placed the paper it still worked alright but I wasn't exactly happy with it. Also had a tablet PC that had issues with overheating and only got worse until I had to watch YouTube in 360p just so it wouldn't overheat, I got it repaired 2 times for the same issue and they replaced the mobo and it was good as new again for a while, and the 3rd time I got a partial refund instead (thanks to Norwegian law), that was more due to the shitty AMD Turion CPU in it though and not a fault of HP.
 

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