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Last year, I tried to find help over my Dell inspiron 5559 stuck in “automatic repair”. Well, I got a replacement hard drive that Christmas and my laptop was working almost like normal again. But a few months ago, the screen started breaking into a row of flashing vertical lines. At first, it...

Should've brought it up, but how do you test a boot drive to assure it's working? I should also bring up how the laptop got to this state: I've gotten issues with the HDD in the recent months (I began to get "100% disk usage" and "Event 7, disk" often, to a point that I had to shut down before...

I own a Dell Inspiron 5559 that's only got the "preparing automatic repair" message and then black screen every time I started it since Saturday. I tried many methods available: rebooting it 3-4 times, turning it on without battery, whatever key combinations to take me to advanced startup (so...