Broken Hard Drive... Or Not?

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Purelink9

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Hi I just bought a laptop broken for $60 the only problem was that Windows would freeze when I log in and just keep loading so I figured it was just a windows problem or maybe a hard drive problem I don't really know the specs but it has a AMD Athlon x2 and a 160GB Sata Hard Drive.
It's a hp presario f700
So another deal was for me to take all the data and give it to my cousin so I plugged it into my computer and copied the data everything went smoothly. then I deleted it and and went on the disk manager thing and deleted it and made it blank that went smoothly then I downloaded Ubuntu it loaded and ran the installer then I think it said it had trouble copying the installer I think it said it may also be a hard drive problem.
ALso when ubuntu was loading I was getting errno=-16 severel time but after trying 5 times it would boot.
So I want to know if the hard drive truly is broken and i should buy a new one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136692
would the above link work on all sata laptops
I don't want to buy it and figure out it doesn't work.
I also tried to install ubuntu directly from my computer to the laptop hard drive and it finished but when i pluged it in it gave me that same black screen with the dash flashing.
Thank you.
 
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hard drive sounds likely... what do you mean you tried ubuntu from your computer directly to the laptop? like a remote network install?
 
I plugged in the sata in the computer and in the partition manager I chose the laptop hard drive and did all that stuff and installed Ubuntu using my desktop computer but I chose the laptop HDD
 
There are plenty of hard drive diagnostic tools out there that can tell you if the hard drive is failing. You can look at the brand and then go to that company's website and download a tool that will check the hard drive.
 
Purelink9 said:
I plugged in the sata in the computer and in the partition manager I chose the laptop hard drive and did all that stuff and installed Ubuntu using my desktop computer but I chose the laptop HDD
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I am not sure this would work, i know it wouldnt work in Windows land...


You can find UBCD and run that it has a bunch of HDD diagnostics on it like potater said.
 
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