“Day 4 of owning this laptop. Was loving it, but the hard drive just went bad and disappeared on me. Has anyone else had this problem? Wouldn't mind getting a replacement, but if this is going to happen again then there's no way I'm getting another.”
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Did you go under disk Management by right clicking the start menu and seeing if it showed up there? If yes it's there and all spinning hard drives can be fixed by unscrewing the four screws and lifting the platter up and resetting it but that's a complete waste of time and all spinning drives are garbage I recommend you just go to Amazon and buy a 500 gig solid state drive and pop it in there it will never fail you. I also swap the 256 solid state for a 1 terabyte Samsung 860 Evo. so in total I have 1.5 terabytes of solid-state which I'll never use but it's nice to have. as for changing your regular hard drive it's not a problem and some of them are just junk I've had some that have lasted years and then I just turn on the laptop and it's dead if you want to go that route I recommend a Seagate firecuda it's 8 gigs of solid-state and then you can get one $12 or 2 terabytes of spinning drive but it's about four times faster than a regular spinning drive and you can get to terabytes for the cost of a 500 gig solid state about a hundred bucks. But my main suggestion is just remove the hard drive you know and by a larger and. 2 again I recommend the 860 Evo m. 2 I got mine around Christmas for $120 . Now on Amazon they're about $160 for one terabyte of SSD m. 2. The only thing you will need is an external m. 2 enclosure to clone your original hard drive and cloning software you can either use Samsung data migration which is free or macrium reflect which is free. Just Google macrium reflect yes it it looks like they're all paid versions but it's for home use and it is free with that you can literally drag and drop all your partitions and you're done it is super simple. if you go with the 860 Samsung Evo m. 2 you can also choose to use the data migration from Samsung now that is not the Samsung magician it is the Samsung data migration and all you do is leave your m. 200 yam in the computer plug in the enclosure with your brand new one terabyte Samsung and got too into the 3.0 USB and then just hit clone and within six minutes it's done then you just open the bottom and swap them out. Here's a picture of what the inside looks like
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