- Mar 22, 2016
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So I dropped my laptop from about 6 feet yesterday. Everything seemed fine, I was able to restart and use it perfectly for about half an hour. Then the screen went black. I held the button to power off and rebooted it, and it gives me a blue screen saying it can't find some file necessary for booting. I rebooted multiple times trying to get it to work, and the result varied between the same blue screen (sometimes complaining about a different file), not recognizing the drive at all, and booting for a few seconds then freezing on either the loading screen or just a black screen with a cursor. I opened it up and everything seemed alright except what look like burn marks on the SSD (pic below). I'm installing Windows on my HDD so I should still be able to use the laptop at least. Is there anything I can try to revive this drive or is it a lost cause?
If it helps, the laptop is an ASUS K501LX-NB52.
If it helps, the laptop is an ASUS K501LX-NB52.
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