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If I'm not so wrong, my hdd is going to die. Right?

Is there anything that I can try besides switching the hdd?

If the HDD is dead how many skips on the water it is going to do? 4 or 5? /joke

(the image was when I was trying to run a live CD)

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UPDATE: Now it's clicking! It is officially dead...

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You can check your HDD without need of log in, as Mark Kirby pointed out. Just create a Live USB where you can install HDD checkers.

Create a Live USB

On windows I advise downloading Rufus USB Creator.

1- Open Rufus and select your USB stick in the 'Device' dropdown enter image description here

2- Click the CD Rom icon next to the 'FreeDOS' dropdown, then find your downloaded Ubuntu ISO and click 'Open' and then 'Start' enter image description here

3- Click 'Yes' when it asks to download Syslinux software enter image description here

4- Click 'OK' to write in ISO Image mode enter image description here

5- Confirm that your USB stick is selected and then 'OK' to continue enter image description here

6- When it is finished, just restart your computer and start using Ubuntu, or you can install Ubuntu enter image description here

7- Plug the USB into your laptop, and boot from USB. Click on "Try Ubuntu"

Check the HDD state

Quoted from @Oli's answer here:

For the desktop, you can use "Disk Utility" (aka palimpsest or gnome-disks depending on the Ubuntu release) for this.

For the command line, I suggest you install the smartmontools package and play around with smartctl. Eg:

sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda

Source: How to check the health of my hard drive and How to Create a bootable usb stick on Windows

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Before thinking it's a dead drive wih firm conviction, go for the cheaper possibility and replace the cable. If that works you saved yourself from having to buy a new drive at the expense of a fraction of the cost for a new drive.

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