I smashed my laptop, it won't boot now

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blackliongg1

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As the title says, today i did something stupid i really regret. I was playing LoL, when i got really angry and smashed the corners of the keyboard twice. My laptop beeped once, but surprisingly i was able to continue playing(for about 1 minute) but when the game ended and the client closed, it said "windows encountered an error and has to reboot". When i reboot it it says "preparing for automatic repair". After a few minutes it changes to a black screen with the cursor of the mouse and nothing happens. What have i done? Did i destroy my hdd entirely? Or something else causes this issue? Can i repair it by myself without involving experts? If my parents find out about that im dead. Help me please. :(
 
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The HDD is dead, time to upgrade to a SSD and reinstall everything.

A modern laptop with SSD and LED backlighting is quite impact resistant, with the main weak points being the hinges, which can break if dropped on them, especially when open. The screens seem to be much more flexible than a phone's.

While you are waiting for that SSD, you can still use the laptop with a live bootable distro on optical disc or USB, but obviously no LoL on that.
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Yep, very likely the drive has errors, I would guess you have a platter drive not a solid state one, and sudden shocks can cause damage to it.

You can try restarting it and doing a system restore to re-install Windows, if it's not a hardware issue with the drive that should get you going. Will wipe the system and install it like it was new. If that fails, you will need to try a new drive and install Windows on that.
 
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blackliongg1

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Yea, now it says "no bootable device" . And it makes a clicking sound
 
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The HDD is dead, time to upgrade to a SSD and reinstall everything.

A modern laptop with SSD and LED backlighting is quite impact resistant, with the main weak points being the hinges, which can break if dropped on them, especially when open. The screens seem to be much more flexible than a phone's.

While you are waiting for that SSD, you can still use the laptop with a live bootable distro on optical disc or USB, but obviously no LoL on that.
 
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blackliongg1

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Currently i dont have much money, so i have two options:
Buy a flash drive with at least 32 gb storage and usb 3.0 support, and run linux on that.
Or buy the cheapest possible hard disk. I don't know if it's important, but i had windows 10 preinstalled on my laptop. Do i have to buy it again then?
 
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You shouldn't need to purchase a new Windows license, but did you happen to make a recovery disk prior to this happening?

If not, you can try and download Windows direct from Microsoft and reinstall it onto a new drive, but depending on which version of Windows, it may not work and you'd have to get a recovery disk from the laptop manufacturer (typically at a cost).

-Wolf sends
 
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blackliongg1

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Well, then the best solution would be to buy that pendrive on Monday. If im not mistaken i can even install windows on that. I would use it as my drive for a few months until i get enough money for a new ssd. Thanks for the answers.
 
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Only Windows To Go can be installed on a USB stick, and that's only Enterprise.

I buy used SSDs all of the time, so long as they are marked with TB written/life remaining and are half the used price on eBay or less. Never had a problem. The last 32GB drive I bought was a SLC X25-E (99% of 100,000 P/E cycles remaining, no TRIM) for US$8. Even compressed, it was barely big enough to hold XP and Office 2003 so I can't really recommend anything that small.
 
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If it was Lenovo Thinkpad your fingers has to be the broken not the laptop, but try your best as already suggested use external USB (live distro) to see what maybe is wrong.
 
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