Need a recovery disk for HP Pavilion All-in-One - 24-xa1014 (5QB22AA)

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome  

You are fortunate that the BIOS update completed before the drive failed. 

It was probably a coincidence that the drive failed at the same time. 

[dpic444]

Yes, probably so.  I'll have to buy an adapter to plug the old hard drive in so I can get my files.  I have an old one for IDE drives and SD cards but I don't think the SSD will be compatible.

Thanks again!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I doubt that you will be able to recover any files off the drive, but what you need to buy is a USB 3/USB-C to VNMe enclosure:

Something like this:

Amazon.com: SSK Aluminum M.2 NVME SATA SSD Enclosure Adapter, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) to NVME PCI-E ...

[dpic444]

I was looking at that on Amazon a little while ago, thanks!

I'm guessing that you think the hard drive is fried.  What causes that type of failure?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome. 

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It's hard to say.

Usually, heat is one of the contributing factors. 

[dpic444]

It has been revving like it's about to take off every time I shut it down over the last month.  I should have asked someone about it.  Fortunately, most of my files are stored externally.  There are a few that I might miss though.

All in all, it's been a great computer.  I had an earlier model before this one for over 10 years.  The electric company killed it one night with brownouts.  When I tried to turn it on the next morning it was dead as a doornail. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

It's possible that you may have to clean dust out of the fan, heat sink and vents.

[dpic444]

Yes, I'm sure you're right.  I'll dust it when I open it up to change the hard drive.  it was easy on my old computer, hopefully it will be that way on  this one.

[dpic444]

I replaced the SSD, not much dust in there.  I also bought the enclosure for the old one.  All files are there.  Looks like the bios update may have wiped out the boot sector.  Now I just need to create the recovery disk and get it back up and running again.  Thank you for helping me!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.  Glad to have been of assistance.

I'm surprised that the fan is running fast if there was no blockage.

You've got a spare drive you can use if you have to, or you can use the old drive for extra storage.